A New York couple is suing a Connecticut-based fertility clinic, claiming it destroyed their embryos by mistake and didn’t notify them till realizing it years later.
The lawsuit says the clinic didn’t notice till round 5 years later and the couple had been paying to retailer the embryos throughout that point. Then, the couple continued to obtain payments for embryo storage for a number of months after they had been notified that that they had been destroyed.
“We placed our trust in Illume Fertility to care for our future family, and that trust was betrayed,” Couture-Gallagher mentioned.
“Thinking of the life and joy that was destroyed has caused us great mental and physical distress that we’re still processing today,” Gallagher added.
The lawsuit says the couple has 4 kids, hoped to have extra and the embryos that had been destroyed had been “Nicole and Daniel’s last, and only, hope to have the family for which they planned, dreamed and paid (the founder and medical director of the clinic) for all these years.”
NBC Connecticut reached out to Illume Fertility for remark and the corporate has not responded.
