Two Sons Awarded $17 Million for Medical Malpractice Death of Mother
Eufemia Martinez died from a botched gastric-bypass surgery. Not only was the surgery botched, it wasn’t even necessary.
“You heard about predatory lending? This was predatory medicine,” the lawyer said. “This surgery is a surgery of last resort. It’s not a cosmetic procedure.”
Martinez’s sons were represented by Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman, a New York Law Firm that specialized in Medical Malpractice. When asked about the the case, it was reported that:
The Bronx mom stood 5-foot-6 and weighed 230 pounds. But the doctor “changed the records” to make her height 5-foot-3 so she could be considered morbidly obese to medically require the surgery, Lichtman said.
Her two sons were awarded $17 million from North General and the doctor involved with the surgery. The New York Post has the full story in their artice, Just Desserts.