A Cook County jury awarded $66 million Friday to the family of a mother of four who died in 2019 after plastic surgery.
Idalia Corcoles, a 39-year-old wife and mom, bled to death after being negligently treated at plastic surgeon Ayoub Sayeg’s clinic, where she had gone for liposuction and what is commonly known as a “tummy tuck,” according to her family’s attorneys with Clifford Law Offices.
The firm said the $66.262 million may be the largest-ever medical-malpractice judgment against a plastic surgeon in Illinois. The award came after a weeklong trial before Judge John Ehrlich at the Daley Center.
“This family should be celebrating the holidays with their healthy wife and mother,” Craig Squillace, a Clifford Law Offices partner, said in a news release. “Instead, it is another Christmas without the person who meant so much to all of them.”
According to the law firm, Sayeg testified that he never saw Corcoles after the operation, while she was bleeding internally for hours, which resulted in a cardiac arrest and ultimately her death.
“The jury obviously is sending a clear message that Dr. Sayeg is not a professional and there is serious consideration if he should even be holding a medical license,” Bradley Cosgrove, another Clifford partner, said in the release.
