Court Opinion

ID: 9522520
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:27:38.474444+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:03:07.427337
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SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
In concurring with reversal of the summary judgment in favor of Dr. Templeton, I do not retreat from the views stated in my separate dissent of this date in Beckerman v. Gordon, (1993) Ind.App., 614 N.E.2d 610.
Mrs. Steffey was in the hospital for the express purpose of delivering her child which was known to be in a breech position. She fully expected to deliver the child near the time at which delivery actually took place.
As stated by the majority here, the spontaneous delivery certainly constituted an emergency, but, from the perspective of the mother and the child, it was not an "accident". While the refinements of the facts present in each of the two cases decided today may seem extremely subtle from the perspective of the person administering "emergency" care, I find the word *618"accident" determinative and, for that reason, concur.