Spangler v. Bechtel

On Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 49A05-0908-CV-A82

DICKSON, Justice.

Following the death of their full-term baby daughter in útero during labor, just before childbirth, the plaintiffs Steven Spangler and Heidi Brown brought this action seeking damages for negligent infliction of emotional distress. In the ensuing litigation, the trial court granted summary judgment to St. Vincent Randolph Hospital, to Barbara Bechtel (the nurse-midwife who provided pre-natal care during the mother’s pregnancy and managed her labor at the hospital), and to Expectations Women’s Health and…