3398 REVIEW DENIED A sperm bank and its medical employees are health care providers for purposes of the statute requiring leave for asserting a punitive damages claim; a claim based on the assertion that plaintiff, who was a product of artificial insemination, was born with a hereditary disease because the sperm furnished by defendant was tainted and plaintiff's mother would not have accepted it had she been properly informed was an action for wrongful life; in an action for wrongful life, plaintiff is not entitled to general damages or future lost earnings.CitationJOHNSON v SUPERIOR COURT (Wrongful Life) 101 CA4 869 [See: CCP 425.13(a); Johnson v Superior Court (RevGrtd) 80 CA4 1050, T/AT 6/00; Central Pathology v Superior Court 3 C4 181, T/AT 10/92; Coe v Superior Court 220 CA3 48; Turpin v Sortini 31 C3 220; Andalon v Superior Court 162 CA3 600]
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