Two men, Kyle Bylin and Jeremy Morrison, are suing a North Dakota hospital, alleging staff switched them at birth more than 36 years ago. The lawsuit, filed against Christian Unity Hospital Corporation (trading as Unity Medical Center in Grafton), highlights the potentially life-altering consequences of hospital identification errors and adds to a string of similar birth-switch and mix-up cases making headlines in the US, including a Florida IVF embryo mix-up reported elsewhere.

According to the claim, reported by North Dakota broadcaster KVLY, Bylin and Morrison were the only two baby boys born at Unity Medical Center on 26 January 1988, and their families say hospital staff mistakenly swapped them shortly after birth. The two men and their respective families are jointly pursuing the case against the hospital operator, though further details of the alleged discovery of the switch and the damages being sought were not fully outlined in the available report.