An American from New Mexico who allegedly received damaging and unnecessary injections to his genitals after a botched and fraudulent diagnosis will be compensated a record US$412 million.
“This is a national record-setting case and it’s right, because there is no place for licensed professionals defrauding patients for money. […] “It’s a breach of trust that no one who wears a white coat should be allowed to do,” said Lori Bencoe, one of the lawyers representing the man, according to Sky News on Thursday.
Earlier this month, the members of a jury in New Mexico, in the United States, awarded the record amount of US$412 million, or more than $577 million, to a septuagenarian who was allegedly the victim of medical fraud causing irreversible damage, according to the English-speaking media.
This would be the largest amount awarded to date in the settlement of professional misconduct, underlined the victim’s lawyers.
According to the complaint, it all started in 2017 when the victim, then 66 years old, consulted the NuMale medical center after starting to suffer from fatigue and weight loss.
It was then that he was allegedly falsely diagnosed with erectile dysfunction, but the clinic offered him a treatment of “invasive injections” costing several thousand dollars to remedy the problem, according to Sky News.
But the latter would have “completely ruined” his genital organ, while he would now suffer from problems urinating, erectile problems as well as fibrosis, that is to say a destruction of certain tissues of his member, a reported in turn by The Olympian.
“Due to corporate fraud and greed, [l’homme] faces irreversible harm that has profoundly affected his body and his life,” Nick Rowley, another of his lawyers, said in a press release.
The jurors thus ruled in favor of the man, concluding that the fraudulent, negligent and unconscionable conduct of the clinic would have caused him significant damage, in addition to violating the law on unfair practices.
For its part, NuMale, which has clinics in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, Nebraska, North Carolina and Wisconsin, according to Sky News, said it “disagreed with the verdict”, indicating that it had “intend to pursue all available legal remedies, including appeal,” according to KRQE News 13.
