Legal Opinion
Harlan v. Norwalk Anesthesiology, P.C.
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided March 18, 2003No. AC 22039PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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PETERS, J.
This case concerns the tragic circumstances of a new mother who, immediately after giving birth to a healthy baby, suffered a stroke that left her with severe physical and psychological handicaps. The underlying issue is whether a jury reasonably could have found that her stroke resulted from a preexisting brain defect rather than from the malpractice of her anesthesiologist. This issue comes to us by way of challenges to the instructions that the trial court gave to the jury and to the restraints that the court imposed on closing argument. The trial court accepted the…
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