The lawsuit alleges a laboratory employee wrongly used toxic chemicals to clean an incubator housing frozen embryos, killing them.
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against Ovation Fertility, one of the nation’s largest networks of fertility clinics, by former patients who claim their embryos were destroyed due to a critical error at the company’s Newport Beach clinic.Two couples filed lawsuits in Orange County Superior Court Thursday alleging a laboratory employee wrongly used toxic chemicals to clean an incubator housing frozen embryos, killing them.
"A lab employee wrongly used hydrogen peroxide instead of a sterile solution" to clean the incubator, Wolf said. "Ovation robbed them of the chance to have biologically related children. ... To make matters worse, this disaster was completely preventable. ... We've handled similar cases virtually all over the country. There's no end in sight to this kind of conduct. We need meaningful regulation throughout the country.
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