Nine couples filed a suit against Ovation Fertility claiming its Newport Beach lab destroyed their embryos and didn't tell them before implantation.

Two lawsuits were filed in Orange County Superior Court last week against Ovation Fertility's Newport Beach location. Nine more couples filed lawsuits Tuesday over the same incident that killed embryos.

Lawsuit claims that clinic staff mistakenly cleaned incubator with lethal solution, destroying embryos before implanting them

Nine couples in a joint lawsuit have accused Ovation Fertility in Newport Beach of destroying their embryos by exposing them to a lethal amount of poison.

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.