A Jacksonville attorney said hundreds of women say they were victims of botched plastic surgery and they are seeking accountability from the doctors.
Chris Shakib of Terrell Hogan Law firm has filed four lawsuits against Dr. Loren Clayman and his son Dr. Mark Clayman and Shakib said around 150 more women are working on putting together lawsuits as well.
“It became an ongoing scam,” Shakib said. “This one’s unprecedented because literally from the beginning of the process when the patient first comes to see the doctor to the last communication with the doctor, there’s medical negligence at every point along the way.”
Shakib said he has gotten calls from around 350 women who say they were victims but the statute of limitations has run out for a number of them.
Shakib said typically the statute of limitations in Florida is two to four years for medical malpractice and sometimes up to seven.
According to the lawsuits already filed, patients claim the Claymans used “overfilled implants” and fraudulently concealed the reason for complications after surgery.
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Many of the women say they ended up disfigured and had stinging pains and required additional surgeries to fix the mistakes.
Shakib said the Claymans blamed the saline implants for their mistakes at times and requested new ones at no cost from the implant manufacturers.
“[They] turn basically [their] own negligence into a way to make more and more money per patient,” Shakib said.
Attorney J. Brent Allen represents the Claymans and in a statement said: “Mark and Loren Clayman are dedicated to providing quality medical care to all of their patients. The allegations being made against the Claymans are only one side of the story, and we will strongly defend the care provided to these patients.”
But Shakib said the legal fight against the Claymans is far from over.
“I’m confident there are still at least several hundred, if not more than that, women that are victims,” Shakib said.
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