Lindsey Cordes and John Cortes of St. Louis settled a claim that Vios fertility clinic and Advagenix genetic laboratory caused Lindsey to give birth to a daughter with physical anomalies.
The parties filed a stipulation on Dec. 10 advising U.S. Magistrate Mark Beatty that John and Lindsey would dismiss the claim.
Beatty had planned to hold trial in November but the parties told him in October that they would settle.
Lindsey miscarried in 2016 and analysis of John’s chromosomes revealed a condition known as four way translocation.
Lindsey and John pursued fertility treatment with physician Amber Cooper at Vios.
Lindsey and John began an in vitro process and 13 embryos were fertilized.
Vios sent six embryos to Advagenix in Maryland, and Advagenix reported that two appeared to have no abnormalities.
Cooper implanted both and ultrasound images showed one survived.
Lindsey gave birth to Hannah Cordes on Jan. 19, 2018, and Hannah presented the conditions her parents had tried to avoid.
They sued Vios, Cooper and Advagenix in 2020, but dismissed Cooper three months later.
An online search of Vios produced a notice that its name changed to Kindbody.
This article was first published in Madison Record.
