Helen C. BOYD; Roger E. Boyd; Veronica Lynn Boyd; by her parents and next friends, Helen Boyd & Roger E. Boyd, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
R.A. BULALA, M.D., Defendant-Appellant,
Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association; Distressed Parents Together; Consumer Federation of America Medical Society of Virginia, Amici Curiae.
Helen C. BOYD; Roger E. Boyd; Veronica Lynn Boyd, by her parents and next friends, Helen Boyd & Roger E. Boyd, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; R.A. Bulala, M.D., Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 11, 1989.
Decided June 12, 1989.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
A.E. Dick Howard, Phillip C. Stone (Ronald D. Hodges, Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, Harrisonburg, Va., Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., Stuart, Va., Gregory E. Lucyk, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendants-appellants.
Rosemarie Annunziata (Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, D.C., William O.P. Snead, III, Fairfax, Va., J. Randolph Parker, Tucker, Parker & Beskin, Charlottesville, Va., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.
(Bill Wagner, Jeffrey R. White, Fred D. Smith, Jr., Minor & Smith, Richmond, Va., on brief), for amici curiae, The Ass'n of Trial Lawyers of America, Va. Trial Lawyers Ass'n, Consumer Federation of America, Distressed Parents Together.
(Allen C. Goolsby, III, Patricia M. Schwarzschild, Robert Acosta-Lewis, Timothy A. Hartin, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., on brief), for amicus curiae, the Medical Soc. of Va.
(J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Judson P. Garrett, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., Robert A. Zarnoch, Annapolis, Md., Kathryn M. Rowe, Asst. Attys. Gen., on brief), for amicus curiae, State of Md.
(John R. Bolton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert S. Greenspan, Silver Spring, Md., Scott R. McIntosh, Appellate Staff, Washington, D.C., Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, on brief), for amicus curiae, U.S. in support of defendants-appellants.
Before WINTER, HALL, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
HARRISON L. WINTER, Circuit Judge:
This medical malpractice action against Dr. R.A. Bulala arose out of his mismanagement of the birth of Veronica Boyd, now deceased. Veronica obtained a verdict for $1,850,000 in compensatory damages and a verdict for $1,000,000 in punitive damages. Her mother, Helen Boyd, obtained a verdict for $1,575,000 in compensatory damages and a separate verdict for $1,000,000 in punitive damages. Her father, Roger Boyd, obtained a verdict...
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