NEWTON v. KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS

Docket No. 23938.

184 Cal.App.3d 386 (1986)

228 Cal. Rptr. 890

JAMES V. NEWTON, a Minor, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

August 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Mart & de Vries and Douglas K. de Vries for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan, William B. Shubb and Raymond M. Cadei for Defendants and Respondents.


[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

SPARKS, J.

In the published portion of this opinion we shall consider whether the parents of a child injured during childbirth stated a cause of action on their own behalf against a hospital and its doctors for negligent infliction of emotional distress. We hold that they did. In the unpublished portion we consider and resolve the statute of...

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