Young v. Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound

The plaintiffs (petitioners), Kenneth Young and Christopher Young, as a marital community, and Christopher Young as guardian ad litem for her son, Dylan Young, seek review of a decision by the Court of Appeals which affirmed a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the defendants (respondents), Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (hereinafter referred to as Group Health), and Doctor Alfred J. Magar, in a medical malpractice suit.

At 2 a.m., on January 30, 1970, Christopher Young was admitted into the Group Health Hospital in anticipation of the birth of her first child. At that…