CHICAGO (CBS) — A court has awarded $66 million to the family of a mother of four who died due to complications from plastic surgery.
In November 2019, Idalia Corcoles went to the 63rd Medical and Surgical Center for Liposuction and met Dr. Ayoub Sayeg who conducted the operation from his office, according to her family’s attorneys at Clifford Law Offices.
During her operation something went wrong and she started bleeding internally.
In court, the doctor testified that he never saw Corcoles after the surgery and did not notice the physical signs of internal bleeding.
“They basically left her in the recovery room,” attorney Brad Cosgrove said. “This is a case about unrecognized and untreated blood loss that went on for hours and hours and hours, and she was essentially allowed to bleed to death.”
On Friday, a Cook County jury awarded Corcoles’ family $56 million in damages. With post-judgment interest, the court entered a judgment against the doctor for $66.262 million, which is reportedly a record in Cook County against a plastic surgeon, and perhaps the largest medical malpractice verdict in Illinois history.
Corcoles, who was 39, is survived by a husband and four children.
The family’s lawyer said that Dr. Sayeg is still practicing, but that the jury’s verdict will trigger a state investigation.
