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Reproductive technology has advanced quickly and significantly and the good news is that the gift of a child is widely available to single people, to gay people, to people who try hard but cannot conceive a child for a myriad of reasons.  The bad news is that the florescence of fertility clinics and sperm banks…

Fertility clinics make mistakes all the time, due to poor protocols, mislabeling, inadequate checking of embryos, equipment, laboratory staff. The mistakes can create huge problems for clients of the clinic. For example, the wrong embryo can be transferred, the wrong sperm can be used to fertilize eggs, the cryopreservation can fail causing eggs and embryos…

If you are going to have an MRI, ask whether or not you can achieve the required result without contrast. Gadolinium is the usual contrast agent and it carries risks. If you have any kidney issues, diagnosed or undiagnosed, it can carry the risk of a condition known as NSF which can be debilitating. It…

Hersh & Hersh was the first firm to develop the specialty in the area of reproductive medicine, including the liability of fertility clinics and sperm banks. Hersh & Hersh successfully represented a plaintiff  20 years ago in a landmark case arising out of the transfer of the wrong embryo to our client which resulted in…

Many men and women, for one reason or another, elect to preserve their eggs, create their embryos, transfer their embryos, promote pregnancy and birth of children to love and cherish. Selecting a good fertility clinic is difficult. Website advertise success rates. Doctors with whom you consult promote their clinics. You are encourages or “advised” to…

Beware of the fertility clinics’ practices and protections. Read the contract carefully looking for language that would relieve the clinic of responsibility for destruction of embryos and eggs. Ask before you sign the contract with the fertility clinic: 1. How they assure that you will receive your embryo and not that of someone else; 2.…

Too often people are intimidated by health care providers and follow their direction without asking important questions. They often fail to do what they can to protect themselves by asking those questions and not being afraid to do so or by going on the internet to research a drug prescribed or a surgical procedure recommended.…

Often called concussion, post concussion syndrome or mild traumatic brain injury, these injuries can happen to anyone involved in a motor vehicle collision, particularly if you are struck from the rear. If your head and neck flex and extend in a rear-end collision, your brain moves in your skull and hits the front and the back of…