One of the lead plaintiffs in the class action against Monash IVF has described her relief after the company settled for $56 million.Monash IVF has made no admission of liability as part of the settlement, which is currently subject to Supreme Court approval.It's one of the largest settlements involving an IVF clinic, and is likely to put reproductive technology providers under the microscope.
donated her embryos to research after Monash IVF deemed some of them unviable in 2020, something she later learned could have been an error The company later admitted that the now-suspended NiPGT was only giving the same result as the standard test 75 to 85 per cent of the time. Stephen Page, the director of Page Provan Family and Fertility lawyers, said he was delighted the class action has been settled.
"A settlement can reduce the force of a class action in communicating what is acceptable conduct because there really is no finding of a violation or liability," she said. "One of the real challenges with this industry is that you have a constant flow of new people who really want to build families and are sometimes quite desperate to do so," she said.