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Handel On The Law

(07/09) HOTL Hour 2

Handel On The Law

KFI AM 640

News

4.3879 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice.

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0:00.0

This lawsuit is right up my alley, and this is an L.A. County lawsuit that was filed that has since settled, so it never even went to trial.

0:09.0

This is a woman and her husband filing a lawsuit against an in vitro lab, a laboratory that creates embryos for couples and then implants.

0:21.6

Then the doctor, of course, implants the embryo into a woman or a surrogate and creates a baby.

0:28.6

So the lawsuit was filed against the fertility clinic and the doctor, and the allegation is the mom where the embryo was implanted, her embryo and her husband.

0:41.4

They in fact put the wrong embryo into her body and the child is not theirs.

0:49.7

She actually carried a stranger's child, which happens.

0:55.0

It's happened, I don't know how many times, probably half a dozen times that I can remember over the course of my 30 years doing a third-party reproduction.

1:05.2

And at this point, we don't know what the settlement was for but I'm assuming it was pretty substantial the lawyers

1:13.2

for the doctor disputed that he was at all responsible the lawyer says there's no credible

1:21.3

allegation that Dr. Moore was the where the embryo he transferred to the woman had been mislabeled or mixed up and was not her embryo.

1:31.2

So according to the doctor's lawyers, he's not at fault because he had no idea.

1:37.6

It's only the lab that is at fault because they screwed up.

1:41.8

Well, unfortunately, Dr. Moore owns the lab.

1:45.8

So how does he get out of it?

1:47.9

And the argument is he's personally responsible and was malpracticing.

1:56.0

In other words, he was guilty of malpractice as well as the lab.

2:01.4

And in case, it went to trial, everybody settled up.

2:06.8

And the couple switched babies to the couple, the other couple where their embryo went in.

2:13.4

It was almost like, you know, you've seen those spy movies where they cross the bridge in East and West Germany.

2:23.9

It was almost like that.

2:25.1

Baby switch.

2:26.3

Couples got their own baby.

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