COMPTON, Justice.
In this case of first impression in Virginia, involving prenatal harm, we decide whether an action for a child's wrongful death may be maintained against a tortfeasor whose negligence occurred when the decedent was in the mother's womb.
On August 26, 1985 in Roanoke County, a motor vehicle operated by Debra E. Kalafut was struck from the rear by another vehicle driven by appellee John Defrees Gruver, Jr. Kalafut was approximately twenty-one...
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