On June 28, an en banc state Superior Court panel found that physicians owe a third-party duty of care to their patients’ “future, unborn children” in a ruling that medical malpractice defense lawyers said represents a landmark in the largely uncharted territory known as “preconception torts.”
Jonathan B. Stepanian, a professional negligence defense attorney in the Hershey office of McQuaide Blasko Attorneys, said the court’s ruling “really broadens” physicians’ duty of care to include “reasonably foreseeable people.”
