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PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST v. BROWN

No. 79-2069.

388 So.2d 1084 (1980)

PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST, Richard Auclair, M.D., and Glenn Salkind, M.D., Appellants, v. Susan BROWN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Strickroot and Henry Burnett, Miami, for appellants.

Mandina & Lipsky and Michael A. Lipsky, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.

SCHWARTZ, Judge.

This case of first impression in the Florida appellate courts1 presents the fascinating question of whether the cost of raising a previously unwanted but healthy and normal child is a recoverable element of damages in a so-called "wrongful birth" case. We conclude that it is not.

The issue comes to us in a pristine legal form, uncluttered by any procedural or factual complexity. A jury found that physician-employees...

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