Date: 05-22-2001

Case Style: Brynum vs. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Case Number: Unknown

Judge: Michael I. Bernstein

Court: Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Plaintiff's Attorney: Mark S. Keenheel of Keenheel & Harris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Defendant's Attorney: Robert M. Britton of Post & Schell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Description: Medical Malpractice - still birth.

Outcome: Defendant's verdict.

Plaintiff's Experts: Unknown

Defendant's Experts: Unknown

Comments: Evidence of a woman's prior abortion and her consideration of terminating a pregnancy that ultimately ended in a stillbirth was properly admitted at trial in a medical malpractice case.

Reported by the Philadelphia Chapter of NALS. For more information about NALS go to www.nals.org or contact the Philadelphia Legal Secretaries Association at 215-751-2487.