ARKANSAS, USA — An Arkansas woman received a $2.5 million judgment last month as a result of injuries from surgery she probably didn’t need.
Jerri Plummer’s procedure was done as a part of an alleged scheme to turn a potentially defective medical product into a moneymaker for doctors and lawyers, according to her 2018 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Little Rock.
The 54-year-old Saline County woman received the default judgment against Women’s Health & Surgery Center LLC of Winter Park, Florida, and a marketing company called Law Firm Headquarters LLC of Florida and its owners Michael Chhabra and Vincent Chhabra.
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