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