Women & Infants Hospital denies Lindsay Clancy's malpractice claims. A civil answer is not a ruling.

The civil case and the criminal case are asking related questions in different rooms. In the criminal case, the defense conceded the killings and argued that postpartum psychosis left Clancy not criminally responsible. In the civil case, she accuses her own providers of missing what was happening to her. The hospital's answer, as Court TV reported it Monday, is a blanket denial that leans on the medical records. That is the ordinary opening move in a malpractice case. It is not proof that the care was adequate, and the lawsuit is not proof that it was not. What decides the Nov. 2 hearing in Plymouth is the criminal record, not the civil pleadings.

Court TV reported Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, that Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., has filed a response to the medical malpractice lawsuit Lindsay Clancy brought against providers who treated her before the 2023 deaths of her three children at the family's home in Duxbury, Mass. According to Court TV, the hospital's attorney wrote that the contents of Clancy's medical records "speak for themselves" and offered a blanket denial of the allegations. An answer that denies a complaint puts the claims in dispute. It does not decide them.

Clancy filed the civil suit before her criminal trial began, Court TV reported. It names several practitioners individually along with the hospitals where they worked and alleges that she was overmedicated and that her treatment was poorly managed. According to the lawsuit and trial testimony as Court TV summarized them, Clancy admitted herself to a partial hospitalization program at Women & Infants about a month before the deaths, hoping to enter a program for women with postpartum depression. She was discharged after one day, the suit alleges, after the attending psychiatrist concluded she had "no postpartum depression" and the clinical team viewed her symptoms as "more pharmacologically induced than purely depressive." The suit alleges the doctors who discharged her did not identify a more appropriate place for her to get treatment. CNN's case timeline dates the filing to January 2026 and notes that in it Clancy wrote that she strangled her children after hearing a voice in her head. Those are allegations in a civil complaint. They are not findings by any court.

Court TV reported that a separate wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Patrick Clancy on behalf of the three children does not name Women & Infants Hospital as a defendant. Both civil cases move on their own track, apart from the criminal prosecution in Plymouth County.

Clancy's first trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4 when jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict. Court TV reported the split was 11-1, with the majority wanting to find her not guilty by reason of insanity. On Oct. 1, Judge William Sullivan denied the defense motion for a required finding of not guilty. CNN reported that Sullivan is still weighing other defense motions, including those tied to the holdout juror, and set a hearing for Nov. 2. Prosecutors have not said whether they will retry her, and Clancy remains charged with murder. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.