Suffolk County Jury Awards $8M to Victim of Malpractice For Post-Op Infection Following Gastrectomy to Treat Morbid Obesity
On September 25, 2018, a unanimous Suffolk County jury rendered a verdict of $8,000,000 against a bariatric surgeon and a family doctor. The plaintiff was an adult male with morbid obesity that was treated with a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy to reduce the size of his stomach. There were signif...