A jury awarded nearly $15 million to five people who lost eggs or embryos when a cryogenic storage tank failed at a fertility clinic.
SAN FRANCISCO — A jury on Thursday awarded nearly $15 million to five people who lost eggs or embryos when a cryogenic storage tank failed at a fertility clinic. A federal jury made the award in a lawsuit filed over the 2018 tank failure at the Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco that destroyed about 3,500 frozen eggs and embryos. The award — including more than $14 million in damages for pain, suffering and emotional distress – will go to three women who lost eggs and a married couple who lost embryos. Their case is the first to go to a jury, but hundreds of other people also have sued the clinic and Chart Industries Inc.
