Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Mar. 10, 2021
Cryogenic company to face trial over tank malfunction, loss of eggs, embryos
In March 2018, the center’s laboratory director discovered that the tank, which contained 1,500 eggs and 2,500 embryos, had lost liquid nitrogen, according to court documents.
A U.S. magistrate judge has denied a motion for summary judgment in a case involving a cryogenic tank malfunction, resulting in the loss of several women's eggs and embryos and moving the case toward a trial in May in San Francisco.
The women said they preserved their eggs at the Pacific Fertility Center in a cryopreservation tank manufactured by Chart Industries Inc. In March 2018, the center's laboratory director discovered the ta...
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