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Five patients of a California fertility center have been awarded a total of $15m after a freezing tank failed, rendering some of more than 3,500 frozen human embryos and eggs unviable. While the extent of the damage from the accidental thaw is unclear, jurors awarded the sum to clients of the Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco after finding that the storage tank maker, Chart Industries, knew about a defect that prevented accurate...

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...

A lawyer for a company that makes cryogenic tanks told jurors that a tank failure that ruined human reproductive tissue was caused by product misuse, not a manufacturing defect. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – On the first day of a federal jury trial over a freezer tank failure that destroyed thousands of frozen eggs and embryos, jurors heard dueling narratives about what caused the catastrophe that dashed some families’ only hope of having biological children. “Irreplaceable” is the word attorney...