Cook County jury awards $66 million in medical malpractice case

A Cook County jury awarded $66 million to the family of Idalia Corcoles, a mother of four who died in 2019 after plastic surgery at Ayoub Sayeg’s clinic. The largest-ever medical-malpractice judgment against a plastic surgeon in Illinois was given after a weeklong trial where it was revealed that Corcoles bled internally for hours without proper treatment, leading to her death. Sayeg’s negligence in not seeing Corcoles post-operation resulted in cardiac arrest, prompting questions about his professional conduct and medical license.

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