CANESI EX REL. CANESI v. WILSON


730 A.2d 805 (1999)

158 N.J. 490

Brandon CANESI, a minor by his parents Melissa and Sebastian CANESI as Guardian Ad Litem, Melissa and Sebastian Canesi, Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James A. WILSON, M.D. and Ronald Loewe, M.D., Defendants-Respondents, and John Doe Physician (2-10) and John Doe Drug Manufacturer (1-10), Defendants.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided June 17, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay L. Hundertmark, Linwood, for plaintiffs-appellants (Valore Law Offices, attorneys).

Robert E. Paarz, Pleasantville, for defendant-respondent James A. Wilson, M.D. (Paarz, Master, Koernig, Crammer, O'Brien & Bishop, attorneys; Mary Ann C. O'Brien, on the letter in lieu of brief).

Donald J. Grasso, Toms River, for defendant-respondent Ronald Loewe, M.D. (Orlovsky, Grasso & Bolger, attorneys; Nina M.C. Halpin, on the letter in lieu of brief).


The opinion of the Court was delivered by HANDLER, J.

In this medical malpractice case, parents brought suit against two obstetricians after their child was born with the congenital defect of bilateral limb reduction. The parents' principal allegation was that the doctors were negligent in failing to warn them that a drug prescribed for the plaintiff mother posed the specific risk of fetal limb reduction and that the prescribed...

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