The Brief Lindsey Clancy's civil lawsuit against her medical providers will continue after a judge declared a mistrial Friday, her lawyers said. Jurors couldn't agree whether Clancy, 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse who killed her three young children the lawsuit accuses Clancy's doctors and mental health providers of failing to diagnose her with bipolar disorder and prescribing medications that  exacerbated her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break. 



Minutes after a judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of Lindsay Clancy, her attorneys said their civil case against her medical providers will go on.

The murder trial of Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse who killed her three young children, has drawn widespread attention and sharp divisions over whether the Massachusetts woman should be criminally responsible given her mental illness and pleas for help.

Lindsay Clancy's civil lawsuit

After the murder trial ended Friday, two attorneys who filed a civil lawsuit against Clancy's medical providers spoke outside the courthouse.

What they're saying:

 All this was caused by the failures of the medical profession,  attorney Andrew Meyer said Friday outside the courthouse.  She wouldn't have been here, she wouldn't have gone through all she's gone through for the past years … they dropped the ball, they caused her to be here and everybody is suffering as a result. 

Lindsay Clancy looks on as jurors (out of frame) enter the courtroom during Clancy's murder trial at the Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on September 4, 2026. (Photo by Greg Derr / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Dig deeper:

According to WCVB , the lawsuit accuses Clancy's doctors and mental health providers of failing to diagnose her with bipolar disorder and prescribing medications that  exacerbated her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break.  The lawsuit said Clancy was hearing commands from a man's voice during her state of psychosis and could not control her body's actions.

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