Florida Couple Sues IVF Clinic Over Embryo Mix-Up

A Florida couple has filed a lawsuit against a Longwood fertility clinic, alleging an embryo mix-up during in vitro fertilization procedures led to the birth of a child who is not biologically related to them. Tiffany Score and Steven Mills, both Caucasian, discovered the issue shortly after their daughter was born on December 11, 2025, at a hospital in the Orlando area. The suit, filed on January 22, 2026, in Orange County Circuit Court, names IVF Life Inc., which operates as the Fertility Center of Orlando, and its medical director, Dr. Milton McNichol, as defendants.

The couple turned to the clinic in 2020 to build their family through IVF, a process in which eggs are fertilized with sperm outside the body to create embryos that are then frozen for later implantation. They stored three viable embryos at the facility, which promotes its advanced technology for assisted reproduction. In April 2025, specifically on April 7, one embryo was implanted into Score. She carried the pregnancy to term and delivered a healthy baby girl, but the child's physical appearance raised immediate suspicions, as she did not resemble her Caucasian parents and appeared to be of a non-Caucasian...