Story highlights Lawyers accuse Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco of a lack of transparency University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center has offered free services (CNN)Two incidents of accidental human embryo destruction that occurred days apart at two different fertility clinics in separate parts of the country are being handled “very differently,” lawyers involved in both cases say. Attorney Adam Wolf referred to the two cases as “a tale of two cities” at a news conference Wednesday. The Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco experienced a liquid nitrogen storage tank failure on March 4 and began notifying some fertility clients seven days later that 2,000 frozen eggs and embryos “may have” been compromised. The University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center notified patients March 6 of damaged eggs and embryos after a similar laboratory failure that same weekend. Wolf’s firm, the San Francisco law firm Peiffer Rosca Wolf Abdullah Carr & Kane, is representing clients in both cases. Combined, both clinics are now subject to dozens of legal actions. ‘Our future family … is gone’: Parents in two cities grieve their lost embryos Though the Cleveland-based university hospital has taken responsibility for the problem and taken steps to try to rectify the situation,… Read full this story
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