During my career as a licensed massage therapist, countless people have opened up to me while in treatment. One vent session in particular stood out to me, as it completely changed my view of the in vitro fertilization…
Embryo Destruction & Fertility
It was one of the worst accidents in the history of reproductive medicine. A storage tank at a San Francisco fertility center imploded, its trove of 4,000 human eggs and embryos damaged or destroyed. A jury later found…
A fertility clinic is accused of exposing over a dozen embryos inside an incubator to hydrogen peroxide, leading to failed pregnancies and heartbreak for several California couples. The exposure to the chemicals killed the embryos, which were then…
A California fertility clinic transferred ruined embryos into multiple patients, failing to realize that the embryos had been compromised and could not result in pregnancy, a set of lawsuits alleged this month. At least 11 people being treated…
Several couples are suing a southern California fertility center over claims that the facility staff destroyed their embryos in a “toxic incubator” and later implanted these embryos into the women who sought their services. So far 11 couples…
Multiple Orange County couples added to the legal woes of a fertility clinic with offices in Newport Beach with another claim regarding failed attempts at pregnancy due to some sort of error in a laboratory. Last week, two…
Two lawsuits were filed Thursday in Orange County Superior Court against Tennessee-based Ovation Fertility for the loss of the plaintiffs’ embryos at the company’s Newport Beach location in January, when an employee mistakenly used hydrogen peroxide instead of…
NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Two couples filed lawsuits in Orange County Superior Court Thursday alleging a Newport Beach-based laboratory employee wrongly used toxic chemicals to clean an incubator housing frozen embryos, killing them. The lawsuits were filed against…
Several lawsuits in California were filed again Ovation Fertility, a large network of fertility clinics, were filed by former patients whose embryos were destroyed due to a reported critical error at the company’s Orange County branch. The lawsuits…
An Orange County fertility clinic accidentally destroyed embryos after they came in contact with hydrogen peroxide while an employee was cleaning an incubator, according to a pair of lawsuits filed by two couples on Thursday, April 18. The…