B.D.H. ex rel. S.K.L. v. Mickelson

MARING, Justice.

[¶ 1] B.D.H., by and through his parents, next of friends and natural legal guardians, S.K.L. and C.S.H., and S.K.L. and C.S.H., individually, (“plaintiffs”) appeal from a summary judgment dismissing their malpractice action against Dr. Margaret Mickelson, Dr. Nathaniel Karlins, MeritCare Health System, and MeritCare Hospital (“doctors”). The plaintiffs argue B.D.H.’s wrongful life claim, which they define as an action by a child who claims he or she was born with impairments and would not have been born but for a doctor’s negligent advice or treatment of the child’s mother,…