SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Parents of a girl who just turned 1 year old but suffers from permanent disabilities are suing their health care provider for wrongful life.
Danielle Claudat and Shane Sanders filed suit June 1 in San Francisco Superior Court against The Regents of the University of California on behalf of daughter Larkin, who was born June 2, 2021, with "genetic impairment."
Their physicians at a University of California facility in San Francisco failed to adequately perform pre-natal care and diagnose the genetic issue, the lawsuit says.
They performed their jobs in "a careless and negligent manner all of which, among other things, directly and proximately resulted in certain permanent injury and disability," the suit says. They failed to diagnose the issue and/or warn Larkin's parents of the risk she would be born with genetic impairments, it adds.
"Had (the parents) known the likelihood that (Larkin) would have been born with said genetic impairments and/or disabilities, (they) would not have conceived (her) or would not have carried the fetus to term," the suit says.
It adds they known have to pay "extraordinary expenses." The plaintiffs are represented by Erik Peterson of Bostwick & Peterson.