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Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Brain Damage During Cosmetic Surgery

June 10, 2018

The adult son of a 54-year-old woman filed a Georgia medical malpractice claim against a cosmetic surgeon for the brain damage his mother suffered during a cosmetic surgery procedure performed at a Georgia medical spa and cosmetic surgery center. The woman had wanted to look her best for her upcomin[...]

$400K Michigan Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Plastic Surgeon For Botched Facelift

January 27, 2018

On December 11, 2017, a Michigan medical malpractice jury awarded a woman $400,000 in total damages, which included $50,000 for permanent scarring and $350,000 for the plaintiff’s past pain and suffering, in a lawsuit that claimed that the defendant plastic surgeon who performed her facelift h[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Holds Patient’s Negative Online Review Of Her Plastic Surgeon Not Actionable

April 8, 2017

In its opinion dated March 20, 2017, the Ohio Court of Appeals Seventh District (“Appellate Court”) held that the negative online review of a plastic surgeon by a former patient against whom the former patient had obtained a medical malpractice verdict was not actionable for tortious int[...]

Florida ALJ Determines Butt Lift Doctor Committed Multiple Acts Of Medical Malpractice

January 18, 2017

In her Recommended Order dated January 6, 2017, a Florida Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) stated that a Florida doctor who performed cosmetic surgery procedures on multiple patients in May 2015, including liposuction and fat injection procedures commonly referred to as a “Brazi[...]

New Study Regarding Plastic Surgery Malpractice Claims

October 6, 2016

A study released on September 23, 2016 by The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurance company, analyzed 1,438 medical malpractice claims against plastic surgeons who were insured by The Doctors Company and which plastic surgery medical malpractice cl[...]

Father And Son Plastic Surgeons Face Over 160 Medical Malpractice Lawsuits In Florida

June 11, 2016

A Florida plastic surgeon and his son, who is also a Florida plastic surgeon, are reportedly facing more than 160 medical malpractice claims that they disfigured their patients as a result of negligently performed breast surgery, with many complaining that they have been left with pain and withou[...]

Young Florida Cosmetic Surgery Patient Suffered Brain Damage Following Her Procedure

June 5, 2016

An 18-year-old female in Florida decided to have elective breast augmentation surgery at a Florida outpatient cosmetic surgery clinic. Little did she know that the physician who administered the anesthesia for her procedure was a convicted felon. Within five minutes after the plastic surgery proced[...]

Florida’s Outpatient Cosmetic Surgery Clinics Under Scrutiny

June 1, 2016

Outpatient cosmetic surgery clinics in Florida, and especially in the Miami area, have been in the news lately for incidents of women undergoing butt lifts and other cosmetic procedures, including cosmetic injections, at outpatient clinics and so-called medical spas that have resulted in severe inju[...]

Idaho Plastic Surgeon Sued For Alleged Counterfeit Breast Implants And Counterfeit Botox

May 20, 2016

An Idaho medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed in federal court by four former patients of an Idaho plastic surgeon alleging that he injected counterfeit Botox from China and implanted counterfeit breast implants in them. The plastic surgeon’s cosmetic surgery website states that due to [...]

Florida Butt Lift Doctor’s Medical License Restricted

March 29, 2016

An Order of Emergency Restriction of License was issued by the State of Florida Department of Health on February 17, 2016, which immediately restricted a Florida physician who specialized in performing butt lifts and liposuction procedures on women at a Florida surgery center, from performing lipo[...]

Florida Plastic Surgeon Sued By Three Former Breast Implant Patients

January 21, 2016

A Jacksonville, Florida plastic surgeon and his medical practice have been sued by three former breast augmentation patients, within a period of four days in October 2015, alleging that the plastic surgeon was negligent in performing their multiple breast implant surgeries. In each of the cases, th[...]

$3.4M Delaware Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 21, 2014

On December 11, 2014, after a seven-day trial and three hours of jury deliberations, the 52-year-old plaintiff in a Delaware medical malpractice case was awarded $3,425,515 in damages for her loss of income, medical expenses, and her pain and suffering arising out of an allegedly botched surgery on [...]

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