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Connecticut Supreme Court Holds Claims Against Physician Who Used His Own Sperm During IVF That Resulted In Pregnancies Are For Ordinary Negligence, And Are Not Claims For Wrongful Life

March 14, 2025

The plaintiffs, who are both in their thirties, were conceived through IVF. The defendant is the reproductive endocrinologist who performed the IVF procedures for the plaintiffs’ respective parents. Unbeknownst to the plaintiffs’ parents, the defendant used his own sperm in the IVF procedures. T[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Affirms Nearly $35 Million Reproductive Medicine Malpractice Verdict

April 18, 2024

Background Jean-Marie and Aaron are a married couple who wanted to have children but were unable to conceive without medical assistance. In the summer of 2013, the couple sought therapeutic donor insemination (TDI) services at the Centerfor Advanced Reproductive Services (CARS) at the University of [...]

Wrongful Pregnancy Medical Malpractice Claims

September 22, 2018

A wrongful pregnancy medical malpractice claim, which is sometimes called a wrongful conception claim, is brought by “parents of a normal but unplanned child [seeking] damages either from a physician who allegedly was negligent in performing a sterilization procedure or abortion, or from a pha[...]

Oregon Supreme Court Recognizes Wrongful Birth Claim, Rejects Wrongful Life Claim

February 10, 2018

In its opinion dated February 8, 2018, the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon (“Oregon Supreme Court”) recognized wrongful birth claims but rejected wrongful life claims in Oregon, thereby affirming the lower appellate court’s decision. In the case the Oregon Supreme Court was de[...]

Wrongful Life Lawsuit Filed In California

December 21, 2015

On December 3, 2015, a husband and wife filed a wrongful life lawsuit on their own behalf and on behalf of their disabled child in the Los Angeles Superior Court regarding their son, Justin James Sanchez, who was born on September 6, 2014 and later tested positive for cystic fibrosis. The plaintiff[...]

Pennsylvania Superior Court Declares PA Wrongful Birth Law Unconstitutional

November 19, 2012

On November 14, 2012, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania declared that the Pennsylvania statute prohibiting causes of action for wrongful birth and wrongful life (42 Pa.C.S.A. § 8305) was unconstitutional because the manner in which § 8305 was enacted violated the “single-subject rule” cont[...]

Wrongful Birth Claims And Wrongful Life Claims

March 17, 2012

Wrongful birth claims and wrongful life claims are medical malpractice claims arising out of the allegation that the parents were negligently deprived of the opportunity to avoid a pregnancy or to terminate a pregnancy, usually involving a deformed fetus or a fetus with a severe medical conditio[...]

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