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Out-of-Pocket Expenses Must Be Alleged in Claim Based on Alleged Failure to Detect Child’s Medical Condition In Utero

In dismissing a medical malpractice action which was based upon a physician’s alleged failure to detect a medical condition from the review of a sonogram, a condition which may have caused the parents to terminate the pregnancy, the Second Department reviewed the available damages in such an action. Ultimately the Second Department determined that the plaintiffs’ failure to raise a question of fact about future expenses they will incur for care of the child (currently paid for by Medicaid) required dismissal of the complaint:

Although a child with a disability may not maintain a wrongful life cause of action, the child’s parents may, under certain circumstances, maintain a cause of action on their own behalf to recover the extraordinary costs incurred in raising the child … . To succeed on such a cause of action, which “sound[s] essentially in negligence or medical malpractice,” the plaintiffs “must demonstrate the existence of a duty, the breach of which may be considered the proximate cause of the damages suffered by” them … . Specifically, the parents must establish that malpractice by a defendant physician deprived them of the opportunity to terminate the pregnancy within the legally permissible time period, or that the child would not have been conceived but for the defendant’s malpractice … . Further, the claimed damages cannot be based on mere speculation, conjecture, or surmise, and, when sought in the form of extraordinary expenses related to caring for a disabled child, must be necessitated by and causally connected to the child’s condition …. The “parents’ legally cognizable injury’ is the increased financial obligation arising from the extraordinary medical treatment rendered the child during minority’” … . Since the parents’ recovery is limited to their personal pecuniary loss, expenses covered by other sources such as private insurance or public programs are not recoverable ….  Mayzel v Moretti, 2013 NY Slip Op 02379, 2011-11393, Index No 102307/09, 2nd Dept, 4-10-13

 

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