Law firm to represent more than 150 Cordlife parents over their children’s cord blood

The Straits Times05-20

SINGAPORE - Law firm Peter Low Chambers (PLC) has said it is representing 157 parents who stored their children’s cord blood with beleaguered private cord blood bank Cordlife. In a statement on May 20...

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