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Articles about the PGT-A Class Action Lawsuits
TIME Magazine - IVF Patients Say a Test Caused Them to Discard Embryos. Now They’re Suing
Allison Freeman, whose Florida-based firm Constable Law is spearheading the class-action suits, is an IVF mother herself. She became “obsessed” with PGT-A after clinicians made her feel “crazy” for opting out when she was a patient, and only more so after two of her friends ended up with no usable embryos after going through PGT-A testing. Curious, Freeman dug into online fertility communities, where numerous women reported upsetting experiences related to PGT-A: cycles of failed tests, inconsistent results, and even unlikely births like Petersen’s.
Freeman was left with questions not only about this particular test, but also about the entire IVF industry. “It’s the Wild West of medicine,” she says. “What if this is the tip of the iceberg?”
Read the Time article here.
TRUTHDIG - Pricey IVF Test May Be Selling False Hope
In 2021, Allison Freeman, a managing partner at a Florida-based law firm who had a baby through IVF, found herself fielding unusual calls from acquaintances going through IVF.
Women would tell her they only had one embryo, but then a while later, had none. “What do you mean you have no embryos?” she would ask them. They would tell her their one embryo tested abnormal, and that it’s gone.
“That’s what kept happening, over and over and over,” Freeman said. “And I thought, ‘Wow, this test must be just the most amazing thing on the planet, right?’ If we’re treating it as the end-all, be-all for what we ultimately transfer and don’t transfer.”
After talking to doctors, embryologists and genetic counselors, she grew concerned. “I started realizing the test has very strong marketing claims for what it’s capable of, and everyone feels like they have to do it.”
“These [testing] claims are not validated the way that they should be for the broad strokes that they’re marketing,” said Freeman, whose law firm helped file the first lawsuits against PGT-A providers in late 2023 and early 2024.
Besides damages, these lawsuits want changes to industry practices to ensure that patients know PGT-A is optional and imperfect.
“We just want more people to know about it so they’re aware,” Freeman said. “We want transparency.”
Read the Truthdig article here.
PGT-A Class Action Lawsuits News Release
Constable Law, Justice Law Collaborative, and Berger Montague announce class action lawsuits against genetic testing companies for misleading consumers about PGT-A testing during IVF treatment.
Read the news release here.
Talking IVF on Bay News 9
Attorney Allison Freeman sat down with Bay News 9 to discuss the importance of protecting IVF, her personal IVF journey, and how her experience led her to help others on their fertility journeys.
See the story here.
Discussing IVF in Newsweek
Read this article in Newsweek