Vermont Jury awards history-making $5.25M to victim of Doctor/Sperm ‘Donor’

This verdict is a first of its kind and potentially a game-changer for other fertility fraud victims.

Excerpt - '“The story has become an all too familiar one. In the 1970s or 1980s, hopeful couple seeks help conceiving from their doctor. The doctor promises to use donor sperm to help with conception, often promising that the sperm source would be from a medical student. A baby is born. Then years later, in modern times, a DNA test, now popular holiday gifts, reveals that the doctor didn’t exactly use a medical student’s DNA, but used his own sperm to impregnate his patient. #Yuck”

Ellen Trachman is the Managing Attorney of Trachman Law Center, LLC, and a regular contributor to the ‘AboveTheLaw’ platform.