Settlement reportedly reached in lawsuit against fertility doctor who allegedly used his own sperm to impregnate patients

A multi-million dollar proposed settlement agreement has been reached in a Canadian class action suit brought by hundreds of former patients and children of a fertility doctor who used his own or unknown sperm to inseminate his clients, multiple outlets, including the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, reported.

The class action lawsuit, which the Ottawa Citizen reports is the first of its kind, involves 226 people, 100 of which were children conceived when their parents went to the now 82-year-old Dr. Norman Barwin — who had been widely referred to as the "baby whisperer" — for help with fertility. The newspaper reported that 17 of the children are Barwin's biological offspring, while dozens of others do not know who their biological fathers are.