An El Paso woman who got pregnant a year after believing her doctor tied her tubes cannot recover medical negligence damages for the unexpected pregnancy, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
In the court’s opinion, Justice Rebeca Huddle wrote Texas law doesn’t allow for 41-year-old Grissel Velasco to be compensated for the financial costs or pain and mental anguish of giving birth to and raising a healthy daughter. And because there were no valid expenses associated with the pregnancy or postpartum period on record, Velasco couldn’t recover those economic damages either.
“To award money damages for experiences inherent to a