Isn't it ironic?

I'm an attorney, which you probably know from reading my profile. What you may not know is that my current position is at a medi.cal malpr*ctice defense firm. Our firm represents doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers in medi.cal malpr*ctice lawsuits.

I have been recently assigned to a new file in which a man underwent a vas.ecto.my which he claims failed. Three years after his vas.ect.omy, his wife became pregnant. The couple claim that they have had DNA testing done and know that he is the father of the child. His last semen analysis post-vas.ecto.my showed only "a few non-motile sperm."

They now want the doctor who performed the vas.ect.omy to pay them various damages, including (claimed) lost earnings from their small business due to the wife's unplanned pregnancy and birth. (Mom and baby are both fine and healthy; it appears their only claim relates to the fact that they neither planned nor wanted the child and have been inconvenienced/burdened by his unplanned arrival.)

My husband has produced literally tens of MILLIONS of motile sperm every cycle we have been TTC (and in every semen analysis he's ever had), and yet I have been unable to have the baby which we both very much want. If this patient's claim is to be believed, he managed to knock up his wife more than three years after a vas.ect.omy with, at most, "a few" non-motile sperm.

Am I the only one who sees the irony in my being assigned to this file?