Citaat | Parket bij de Hoge Raad 18 maart 2005

Alinea 186 Parket bij de Hoge Raad 18 maart 2005

Een alinea uit Parket bij de Hoge Raad 18 maart 2005, ECLI:NL:PHR:2005:AR5213.

"What then are her injuries, which the doctor's negligence has caused? The anwer must be that there are none in any accepted sense. Her complaint is that she was allowed to be born at all, given the existence of her prenatal injuries. How then are her damages to be assessed? Not by awarding compensation for her pain, suffering and loss of amenities attributable to the disabilities, since these were already in existence before the doctor was consulted. She cannot say that, but for his negligence, she would have been born without her disabilities. What the doctor is blamed for is causing or permitting her to be born at all. Thus, the comparison must be based on a comparison between the value of non-existence (the doctor's alleged negligence having deprived her of this) and the value of her existence in a disabled state.

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