Court record
Lindsay Clancy's civil lawsuit
On January 22, 2026, Lindsay Clancy sued the psychiatrist, the nurse practitioner and the four institutions that treated her postpartum illness between September 2022 and January 2023. The complaint says they failed to diagnose bipolar disorder with postpartum onset, prescribed one antidepressant after another, and never coordinated her care. The complete filing is below, page by page, exactly as it was filed.
- Court
- Norfolk Superior Court, Massachusetts
- Civil action
- 2682CV00081
- Filed
- January 22, 2026 (docketed January 23)
- Plaintiff
- Lindsay M. Clancy
- Defendants
- Jennifer A. Tufts, M.D.; Rebecca H. Jollotta, C.N.P.; Aster Mental Health Inc.; South Shore Health System, Inc.; McLean Hospital; Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
- Counts
- Negligence and medical malpractice, loss of parental consortium, loss of spousal consortium, vicarious liability. Jury trial demanded.
The complaint, 28 pages
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What this document is, and is not
A complaint is the plaintiff's account, written by her lawyer to start a case. Nothing in it has been proven. The defendants can answer every allegation, and a court has not ruled on any of them.
This is a civil case about medical care. It is not the criminal trial, which ended in a mistrial on September 4, 2026 without a verdict, and it does not decide whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible. See the trial record.
The complaint was filed electronically in Norfolk Superior Court and is a public document. It is reproduced here without changes so that people can read the source instead of a summary.