Larsen v. Banner Health System

LEHMAN, Justice.

[11] This case comes before this court as a certified question from the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. We are called upon to answer the question of whether Wyoming allows recovery of purely emotional damages in a negligence action brought by a mother and daughter who were separated because two babies were switched at birth. We answer the certified question in the affirmative.

ISSUE

[12] The issue presented by the certified question is:

Whether a mother and daughter, who were separated for forty-three years because a hospital switched two newborn babies…