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Two Sons Awarded $17 Million for Medical Malpractice Death of Mother

Monday, March 24th, 2008

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 [...]