PIP: In Maine, the parents of a viable fetus brought a wrongful death action charging a hospital and physician with negligence resulting in the death of the fetus. The Court held that, for the purposes of the state's wrongful death statute, a fetus is not a person and that the action could not be maintained. In 1988, other US courts reached the following decisions: 1) a viable fetus is not a human being as defined by the aggravated vehicular homicide statute of Kansas (State vs. Trudell); 2) there is no cause of action in Illinois by or on the behalf of a fetus, subsequently born alive, against its mother for unintentional infliction of prenatal injuries (Stallman vs. Youngquist); 3) a mother has a medical malpractice cause of action in Florida for negligent or intentional tortious injury to a subsequently stillborn fetus, as living tissue of her body (Singleton vs. Ranz); 4) a fetus is not a person within the meaning of the Oklahoma's state assault and battery statute (State vs. Harbert); 5) an unborn child is an "eligible insured person" within the meaning of personal injury protection endorsement of an insurance policy in New Jersey (Sobeck vs. Centennial Insurance Co.); 6) the infliction of injuries on a fetus who was born alive, but died as a result of such injuries, is within the federal statutory definition of murder (US vs. Spencer); 7) the parents of an unborn fetus cannot recover damages for loss of society in Illinois (Denham vs. Burlington Northern Railroad Company); 8) an unborn child is included within the meaning of "insured" in an insurance policy in Florida (McNamara vs. Seibert); 9) absent physical injury to the mother, a mother may not recover for emotional psychic harm suffered as the result of a stillborn child in New York (McLean vs. Lilling); 10) damages for loss of society, comfort, and companionship can be recovered in an action for the wrongful death of an unborn child in North Dakota (Hopkins vs. McBane); 11) a fetus is not a person within the meaning of the wrongful death act in New Jersey (Giardina vs. Bennett); 12) a defendant who was acquitted of manslaughter for the death of a "fetus" because a fetus is not a human being for the purposes of the crime of manslaughter cannot subsequently be charged with the manslaughter of an "unborn child" in North Carolina (State vs. Parsons); and 13) a child who dies during delivery after its head becomes entrapped in its mother's cervix is not born alive for the purposes of the wrongful death statute of Texas (Wheeler vs. Kersting).