Legal Opinion
Kilker by and Through Kilker v. Mulry
Court of Appeals of Iowa
Decided December 22, 1988No. 87-595PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HABHAB, Judge.
Jared Kilker was born on October 7, 1982, at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs. During the moments before his birth, his mother was discovered to have placenta previa, a condition in which the placenta lies in front of the baby and blocks the baby’s path of egress into the birth canal. This condition requires that delivery be done by Caesarean section.
In the present case, the existence of placenta previa was suspected a few minutes before birth by Mrs. Kilker’s attending physician, Dr. Mulry, and by nurses who were on the scene. However, Dr. Robert Pierson, an obstetrical…
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