A Washington state jury awarded $24 million to the family of a man who sought stem cell treatment after seeing a Seattle clinic’s “deceptive” claims that it could treat his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with spinal injections. The man died after the clinic performed the procedure without proper imaging guidance, the jury ruled.
“What was done to him was deeply wrong and incredibly disheartening,” Holly Trujillo-Lopez, daughter of Michael Trujillo, told Law&Crime about the Seattle Stem Cell Center’s online deception and deadly imaging error.
“The world deserves to understand what really happened — not just for our family, but so others are never hurt by people like this again,” Trujillo-Lopez said…