RAMEY v. FASSOULAS

No. 79-1573.

414 So.2d 198 (1982)

Dr. John R. RAMEY and Manson, Kuckku and Middkiff, P.A., Individually, and d/b/a Manson Clinic, Appellants, v. John FASSOULAS and Edith Fassoulas, Individually and As Husband and Wife, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

On Rehearing June 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wicker, Smith, Blomqvist, Davant, Tutan, O'Hara & McCoy and Richard A. Sherman, Miami, for appellants.

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Arnold R. Ginsberg, Hawkesworth & Schmick, Miami, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, C.J., HENDRY, J., and PEARSON, TILLMAN (Ret.), Associate Judge.


HUBBART, Chief Judge.

The central issue presented for review by this appeal is whether the parents of a child, who is born as a result of a negligent vasectomy, are entitled in a "wrongful birth" negligence suit to past and future damages for the care and upbringing expenses of the subject child as against the tortfeasor physician who negligently performed the vasectomy. We hold that the parents are not entitled to damages for such past and future rearing expenses...

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