The court held that the statute governing claims arising from the birth of an unhealthy child does not require the professional negligence to proximately cause the child's disease or defect; it requires only that the birth itself result from the negligence.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 1995
Published opinions from 1995. The case name opens the case page.
1995 opinions
The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the lower courts’ denial of Argraves’s petition for bail review and his alleged habeas corpus petition, holding that the statutes do not permit a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to review a bail determination made in a District Court Harnish proceeding and that no…
The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine affirmed the judgment, holding that the golf club owed a duty of care to the plaintiff despite not owning the railroad tracks, that Maine's comparative negligence statute does not require damages to be reduced in direct proportion to fault, that the jury’s refusal to award…