Alquijay v. St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

*979This appeal presents the question whether plaintiff, an infant born with Down’s Syndrome, can recover from defendant hospitals the extraordinary expenses she will incur for special care and services upon reaching majority. The basis for her claim is that defendants negligently performed an amniocentesis test on her mother during pregnancy to determine whether the fetus had any genetic abnormality, and their erroneous report that the mother would give birth to a normal male child induced her to…