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    Multiple Orange County couples added to the legal woes of a fertility clinic with offices in Newport Beach with another claim regarding failed attempts at pregnancy due to some sort of error in a laboratory. Last week, two couples sued in Orange County Superior Court alleging that an Ovation Fertility clinic employee in the Newport […]

  • Lawsuit accuses Newport Beach fertility clinic of poisoning embryos

    For two weeks in January, a Newport Beach fertility lab had a zero-percent rate of successful implantation, allegedly because embryos were exposed to hydrogen peroxide or another caustic chemical, according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of nine couples. More than a dozen embryos were already nonviable when the lab, Ovation Fertility, implanted them into the would-be mothers, said the lawsuit, which accuses the lab of negligence. The "catastrophic error" occurred between Jan. 18 and Jan....

  • IVF patients ‘devastated’ after US clinic destroyed but still implanted embryos, suit says

    California fertility clinic Ovation accused of mistakenly creating ‘toxic incubator’ that killed embryos that were then implantedSeveral couples are suing a southern California fertility center over claims the facility staff destroyed their embryos in a “toxic incubator” and later implanted these embryos into the women who sought their services. So far 11 couples have sued Tennessee-based Ovation Fertility’s Newport Beach office, with more lawsuits expected down the line.Ovation clinic staff are...