Reproductive Negligence

  • Read more: Should courts treat destroyed embryos as “lost property” or “wrongful death”?

    Should courts treat destroyed embryos as “lost property” or “wrongful death”?

    Bill of Health contributors Glenn Cohen and Dov Fox were featured in this week’s news coverage of novel claims related to recent freezer malfunctions at two major fertility clinics. A class-action suit by one Ohio couple who lost their embryos asks the court to afford embryos standing to use and declare that life begins at…

  • Read more: Reproductive Negligence under Maine Law

    Reproductive Negligence under Maine Law

    By Alex Stein STEIN on Medical Malpractice has published a survey of noteworthy court decisions in the field for 2017. This survey includes an important decision, Doherty v. Merck & Co., Inc., 154 A.3d 1202 (Me. 2017), featuring reproductive negligence. This decision could benefit from Dov Fox’s excellent article, Reproductive Negligence, 117 Colum. L. Rev. 149…