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Settlement reached against fertility doctor accused of using his sperm to impregnate women



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A Canadian fertility doctor accused of impregnating women with the wrong sperm, including using his own, has agreed to a proposed $10.7 million settlement.  The potential settlement in a yearslong, class action lawsuit involving hundreds of victims was announced Wednesday against former physician Norman Barwin, whose medical license was revoked in 2019.  The class-action lawsuit was started in 2016 by Davina Dixon, Daniel Dixon and Rebecca Dixon. Davina and Daniel in 1989 sought medical services from Barwin, and he performed an artificial insemination procedure for the parents.  However, in 2016 the family discovered through a DNA test that Barwin is Rebecca’s biological father, according …

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