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Inside the opaque world of IVF, where errors are rarely made public
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Most IVF errors go unreported in the lightly regulated fertility industry
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Lawyers for fertility patients who lost eggs and embryos in a 2018 accident asked jurors to reject the tank manufacturer’s argument that fertility clinic employees caused the disaster and conspired to cover it up.
This cryogenic tank manufactured by Chart Inc. imploded after a March 2018 mishap that prematurely thawed 3,500 frozen eggs and embryos stored at the Pacific Fertility Center lab in San Francisco. (court exhibit)
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Capping off a nine-day trial over a devastating fertility clinic mishap, a lawyer for five patients suing a cryogenic tank maker for the loss of frozen eggs and embryos asked jurors to award her clients $30 million for lost property and emotional distress.
A mechanical engineer said lab employees misused a cryogenic tank, causing an accident that damaged thousands of frozen eggs and embryos at a San Francisco fertility clinic.
This cryogenic tank manufactured by Chart Inc. imploded after a March 2018 mishap that prematurely thawed 3,500 frozen eggs and embryos stored at the Pacific Fertility Center lab in San Francisco. (court exhibit)
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) After emotional testimony by two women whose eggs and embryos were damaged in a fertility clinic mishap, a cryogenic tank maker called its first witness Thursday to dispute claims that a manufacturing defect caused the catastrophe.
Franklin Miller, a mechanical engineering professor from the University of Wisconsin who used to work on cryogenic systems for NASA, testified that Pacific Fertility Center employees are to blame for an accident that prematurely thawed 3,500 frozen eggs and embryos at a San Francisco fertility clinic on March 4, 2018.