Egg Donor & Surrogacy Consulting Blog : Egg Donation & Surrogacy Consulting : Conceptual Options : Theresa Erickson : Embryo Donation, In-Vitro Fertilization

In a bad case that just gets worse, the Laurel Fertility Clinic has settled their case with a woman who was accidentally implanted with another couple's embryos for $1 million dollars, according the the National Law Journal. 

In fact, this woman's law firm has now turned around and sued on behalf of a couple whose embryos were destroyed after being fertilized with another man's sperm and not her husband's.  This suit is now the fourth against a fertilitu clinic that attorney, Nancy Hersh, has filed in recent years. 

"The overarching problem," she said, "is a lack of regulation. All these mistakes appear to happen in the laboratory."

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According to the California Bar Journal, the case of Beasley v. Regents of the University of California has been settled for $4,230,000.00.   It states that the doctors at UCI Center for Reproductive Health were found to have engaged in the misappropriation and nonconsensual transfer of donor eggs, several of which resulted in live births.  The original case was initiated in 1995.  Look to the Orange County Courts website for case #JCCP 3213 for additional information on the actual case. 

Also, don't forget about our upcoming egg donation and surrogacy conference in San Diego on September 23, 2009. 

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