An Ohio family has sued a physician and a hospital system saying the wrong sperm was used during a fertilization procedure in 1991.
CLEVELAND -- Jessica Harvey Galloway asked her parents for a DNA genealogical test for Christmas in 2020 hoping to finding distant relatives during a planned trip to Italy with her husband.
"Since then, our lives will never be the same," Galloway said during a virtual news conference with the family and their attorneys on Wednesday.The family has sued Dr. Nicholas Spirtos, the fertility specialist who performed the procedure in August 1991, and the Akron-based Summa Health System. The procedure the Harvey's underwent was intrauterine insemination, which involves inserting sperm directly into a woman's uterus.
Galloway, through her own investigation and the help of her attorneys, eventually found the man a DNA test confirmed is her biological father. The man and his wife were undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment when the Harveys were being treated by Spirtos at Akron General Hospital, Summa's predecessor, the lawsuit said.Jeanine Harvey said the news of her daughter's actual paternity has been overwhelming.
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