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WELLS ESTATE v. MT. SINAI MEDICAL CENTER

No. 92-0186.

183 Wis.2d 667 (1994)

515 N.W.2d 705

The ESTATE OF Mary WELLS, by her personal representative/administratrix, Charlotte, Jeske, Plaintiff, Charlotte JESKE, Plaintiff-Appellant-Petitioner, v. MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER, n/k/a Sinai Samaritan Medical Center and/or Aurora Health Care, Mount Sinai Campus, Daniel Wartinbee, M.D., Milwaukee Orthopaedic Group, Ltd., Wisconsin Health Care Liability Insurance Plan, The Professional Insurance Company of Ohio and Wisconsin Patients' Compensation Fund, Defendants-Respondents, E.J. HUXLEY, M.D., Pulmonary Medicine Associates of Milwaukee, The Medical Protective Company and Milwaukee County Department of Health & Human Services, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided May 25, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant-petitioner there briefs by William W. Ehrke and Quale, Feldbruegge, Calvelli, Thom & Croke, S.C., Milwaukee and oral argument by William W. Ehrke.

For the defendants-respondents there were briefs by Mary Lee Ratzel, Jan M. Schroeder and Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C., James M. Fergal, Linda Vogt Meagher and Schellinger & Doyle, S.C., Wayne Van Ert, Peter D. Alberg and Otjen, Van Ert, Stangle, Lieb and Weir, S.C. Milwaukee and oral argument by Mary K. Wolverton, James M. Fergal and Peter D. Alberg.

JON P. WILCOX, J.

The issue on review is whether a parent can recover for loss of the society and companionship of an adult child whose injuries allegedly resulted from medical malpractice. The court of appeals, believing that a parent's cause of action for lost society and companionship was limited to minor children, upheld the trial court's order granting defendants' motion for summary judgment.1

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