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      "text": "In a Company stacked with internet marketing executives, one would assume PGNY would employ a full-time fertility doctor to guide its decisions that impact treatment protocols. However, we found that PGNY's Medical Director, Alan Copperman, is a full-time physician who faced two lawsuits for medical malpractice.",
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      "text": "These medical malpractice actions were brought separately by couples seeking damages for \"wrongful birth.\" The couples were treated for infertility by Dr. Alan Copperman at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (RMA), and underwent in vitro fertilization using donated eggs. Both couples allege that RMA and Copperman negligently failed to test the egg donors for a chromosomal abnormality known as \"fragile X,\" which can produce intellectual disability and other injuries, until after their children were born. When tests were conducted months after the births, the donors were found to be fragile X carriers and a child born to each couple had the full fragile X mutation.",
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      "text": "RMA and Copperman moved to dismiss both lawsuits as untimely under CPLR 214-a, which requires that a medical malpractice claim be filed within two and a half years \"of the act, omission or failure complained of or last treatment where there is continuous treatment for the same illness, injury or condition which gave rise to the said act, omission or failure.\" The outcome depends on whether the limitations period began to run when the defendants ended their treatment of the plaintiffs or when the children were born. In Case No. 126, embryos produced by the donated eggs were implanted in January",
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      "text": "Summaries of cases before the Court of Appeals are prepared by the Public Information Office for background purposes only. The summaries are based on briefs filed with the Court. For further information contact Gary Spencer at (518) 455-7711 or gspencer@nycourts.gov.",
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      "text": "Source: Alan Copperman RMA biography, Curriculum Vitae, PGNY website, State of New York Court of Appeals Case Summaries November 14-17, 2017, medicalmalpracticelawyers.com",
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