Fertility Clinic Patients Awarded $15 Million After Facility Accidentally Thawed 3,500 Eggs and Embryos

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The lawsuit is the result of a 2018 malfunction at a San Francisco clinic.

The incident took place at Pacific Fertility Center, a San Francisco clinic where, in 2018, a defective piece of equipment prematurely thawed more than 3,500 frozen eggs and embryos., the company that manufactured the part—which monitored the temperature of the storage tank—knew it was defective, but failed to recall it or inform the public.

. Though more than a dozen patients sued a Cleveland fertility clinic following a similar malfunction—which coincir resolved their suits“This verdict should be a wake-up call for fertility centers,” Adam Wolf, a lawyer representing one of the San Francisco clinic patients,

 

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