The multi-billion lawsuit against Chesapeake Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in connection with unnecessary surgeries performed by jailed former doctor Javaid Perwaiz over several decades has now reached 1,000 plaintiffs, each seeking $10 million, according to documents obtained by News 3 on Friday.
The total number of women named in the lawsuit is now 1,040, pushing the total lawsuit to over $10 billion, according to the complaint. The number of plaintiffs in the suit has nearly doubled since News 3 first reported on this lawsuit back in December.
The complaint specifically accuses the defendants of “enabling former physician Javaid Perwaiz to perform unnecessary, uninformed, harmful, invasive, unlawful, and life-altering gynecologic medical procedures on them and other women, for nearly a decade, at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, despite repeated reports and clear evidence of Perwaiz’s prior misconduct in his obstetrics and gynecology practice.”…