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Background Checks – Liability, Negligence and Lawsuits

If organizations fail to adequately screen an intended parent, gestational carrier, donor or donor recipient who then commits a wrongful act in line with readily discoverable previous conduct, it may produce crushing liability in a negligence lawsuit. Alternatively, if an applicant passes a background check and then commits a wrongful act, it may show the organization had no way to foresee this.

The negatively impacted lives and financial costs to organizations can be devastating when background checks are not utilized. Conducting a background check increases the likelihood you will learn pertinent information that can save your business. Taking advantage of this useful tool offers unique protection for your business and is an important first step in the screening process.

The most direct way to say it is that your company is liable for any wrongdoings when a background check is not performed. A recent ruling awarded the plaintiff the amount of…

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https://georgiarecorder.com/2020/09/28/georgia-supreme-court-allows-couple-to-pursue-case-of-sperm-donor-fraud/

https://theconversation.com/sperm-donation-is-largely-unregulated-but-that-could-soon-change-as-lawsuits-multiply-174389

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/sperm-donor-identity-mental-health/616081/

In addition to mitigating your risks and liability along with the resulting consequences there are many other reasons for doing so including in some cases where it is mandatory or requested to submit such proof to the Court of proper jurisdiction for the intended parent’s parental establishment.

Donors and gestational carriers come to you so that they can help others have families through art when they otherwise would not be able to. As such they want the assurance that the resulting child of their contribution is going to home where they are afforded the opportunity to a safe healthy life with loving and good intention parents. While this can be a difficult topic of discussion and a more difficult task of assuring such an extensive background check certainly is an affirmation as to what we believe to be true about our parents to be.

It’s also difficult to explain to a parent to be, who is having to overcome so many obstacles and hurdles, that they must prove that they are who they represent. Of course, it is easily relatable to other aspects of our lives from employment, licensing, permits and so forth that it is widely expected that in a matter anticipating a resulting child one would expect the same. Additionally, it is a guideline and expectation that the donors and gestational carriers should expect.

In addition, the intended parents or gamete recipients have the same expectations and more when it comes to donors and gestational carriers being properly vetted and that the representations made in one’s application is truthful and accurate regardless if donor and recipient are arranged with anonymity. With gestational surrogacy it is rare that the parties true identities are not revealed to one other. It is most common that not only are they known but that the parties form a relationship with one another, at least during the course of the pregnancy. It’s impediment that all necessary steps are made to ensure that they are getting what they signed up for.

When parents come to engage in art they are typically doing so as the only means. Often they are focused on the child that they so desperately want. As such they choose a program that they feel gives them the best opportunity and often aligns with their financial means. Fortunately. The cost of performing a background check is inexpensive and priceless at the same time.

With an ethical and moral obligation being at the forefront of day to day operations having s background check performed and being transparent about the results is the most assuredly ways to protect the clients at minimal cost. In some cases it is at no cost to a program and can often be recouped or result in financial gain with the right approach and disclosure.

Having a background check completed and client view those results directly is the number one most transparent way to dissolve yourself of any associated liability with past or future wrongdoings of anyone engaging in third parties.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/sperm-donor-identity-mental-health/616081/

In addition to mitigating your risks and liability along with the resulting consequences there are many other reasons for doing so including in some cases where it is mandatory or requested to submit such proof to the Court of proper jurisdiction for the intended parent’s parental establishment.

Donors and gestational carriers come to you so that they can help others have families through art when they otherwise would not be able to. As such they want the assurance that the resulting child of their contribution is going to home where they are afforded the opportunity to a safe healthy life with loving and good intention parents. While this can be a difficult topic of discussion and a more difficult task of assuring such an extensive background check certainly is an affirmation as to what we believe to be true about our parents to be.

It’s also difficult to explain to a parent to be, who is having to overcome so many obstacles and hurdles, that they must prove that they are who they represent. Of course, it is easily relatable to other aspects of our lives from employment, licensing, permits and so forth that it is widely expected that in a matter anticipating a resulting child one would expect the same. Additionally, it is a guideline and expectation that the donors and gestational carriers should expect.

In addition, the intended parents or gamete recipients have the same expectations and more when it comes to donors and gestational carriers being properly vetted and that the representations made in one’s application is truthful and accurate regardless if donor and recipient are arranged with anonymity. With gestational surrogacy it is rare that the parties true identities are not revealed to one other. It is most common that not only are they known but that the parties form a relationship with one another, at least during the course of the pregnancy. It’s impediment that all necessary steps are made to ensure that they are getting what they signed up for.

When parents come to engage in art they are typically doing so as the only means. Often they are focused on the child that they so desperately want. As such they choose a program that they feel gives them the best opportunity and often aligns with their financial means. Fortunately. The cost of performing a background check is inexpensive and priceless at the same time.

With an ethical and moral obligation being at the forefront of day to day operations having s background check performed and being transparent about the results is the most assuredly ways to protect the clients at minimal cost. In some cases it is at no cost to a program and can often be recouped or result in financial gain with the right approach and disclosure.

Having a background check completed and client view those results directly is the number one most transparent way to dissolve yourself of any associated liability with past or future wrongdoings of anyone engaging in third parties.

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