Articles From John J. Driscoll

Clark v. Children’s Memorial Hospital: Expanding recoverable damages in wrongful birth actions By John J. Driscoll Civil Practice and Procedure, June 2009 A look at the First District Appellate Court case of Clark v. Children’s Memorial Hospital, et. al.
Tedrick v. Community Resource Center Inc. & the theory of transferred negligence in medical negligence actions By John J. Driscoll Civil Practice and Procedure, January 2008 In Tedrick v. Community Resource Center Inc., et al., the Fifth District Appellate Court recognized a legal duty in a medical negligence action based upon the theories of voluntary undertaking and transferred negligence where Plaintiff-decedent was killed by her mentally ill husband while he was under the psychiatric care of Defendant health care providers. 

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