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Washington Appellate Court Affirms $13M Cosmetic Surgery Malpractice Verdict

September 16, 2025

Dr. Kristine Brecht was a licensed physician and surgeon who was board certified in family medicine. She was the sole owner and operator of Aesthetic Rejuvenation Spa (ARS) located in Burien, Washington. Dr. Brecht performed both surgical and nonsurgical procedures at ARS. Staff at ARS included a re[...]

Florida Plastic Surgeon Arrested For Death Of His Wife Following Office Procedures

August 20, 2024

On June 17, 2024, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office issued the following statement: Death Investigation Update to Hillary Brown Death Investigation On 11/21/2023 Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to Restore Plastic Surgery for a medical emergency. The female victim, later i[...]

$13M Washington Cosmetic Surgery Medical Malpractice Verdict

October 20, 2023

In early August 2023, a Washington medical malpractice jury found that a cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Kristine Brecht, had performed a full-tummy tuck, arm-lift, breast-lift and liposuction cosmetic surgical procedures on a patient in July 2022 who was not properly screened before the procedures and who wa[...]

$2M Colorado Medical Malpractice Settlement For Teen Who Died Following Breast Augmentation Surgery

June 28, 2021

The family of an 18-year-old woman who died after breast augmentation surgery two years ago has settled their Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit for $2 million. The medical malpractice insurance companies for the defendant plastic surgeon and the defendant certified registered nurse[...]

Former California Cosmetic Surgeon Extradited From Israel To Begin Twenty-Year Sentence For Health Care Fraud

February 7, 2020

The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced on January 24, 2020 that a dermatologist who became a cosmetic surgeon and oversaw a long-running health care fraud scheme that conned insurance companies into paying tens of millions of dollars for u[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Affirms $800,000 Cosmetic Surgery Malpractice Verdict For Eye Injury During Procedure

September 16, 2019

The Supreme Court of Virginia, in its opinion filed on August 29, 2019, upheld an $800,000 jury verdict in a cosmetic medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff claimed that the defendant performed a blepharoplasty procedure on her (i.e., a cosmetic procedure performed to remove puffiness, or e[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defendant Not Entitled To Summary Judgment Where Plaintiff Suffered Blindness

August 20, 2019

The New York Appellate Division, First Department (“New York Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on July 30, 2019, affirmed the trial court’s denial of summary judgment to the defendant, stating “The motion court correctly denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the ma[...]

BAAPS Reports Brazilian Butt Lifts Have Highest Death Rates Of All Cosmetic Surgeries In U.K.

October 21, 2018

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (“BAAPS”) warned on October 4, 2018 that Brazilian Buttock Lift (“BBL”) procedures have the highest death rate of all cosmetic surgery procedures (estimated to be as high as 1 in 3,000 operations) in the United Kingdom, du[...]

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