CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — On Thursday, the number of plaintiffs suing Chesapeake Regional Medical Center grew by 123. They allege the hospital enabled convicted OBGYN Dr. Javaid Perwaiz to perform unnecessary and irreversible procedures on women for years.
Attorneys Victoria Wickman and Anthony DiPietro now represent 907 former patients, each seeking $10 million from the hospital.
Attorneys for plaintiffs call CRMC’s response to lawsuit ‘astounding’
“It infuriates me,” Wickman said. “I’m a mom of three children. I have known what it is to have the ability to have children, to feel a child kicking inside you and the love that you immediately have for that child, and to know that some of these women will never experience that … that kills me.”
“Really what we’re trying to do is expose the wrongdoers, expose the people who were involved in this coverup,” DiPietro said. “We know Javaid Perwaiz was doing the surgery, but what we don’t know and what we’re going to find out is who else at Chesapeake Regional was aware that this was going on.”
In 2021, Perwaiz was sentenced to 59 years in prison after he was convicted of performing unnecessary surgeries on women, including irreversible hysterectomies. In 2025, CRMC was indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges related to conspiracy to defraud the United States and healthcare fraud…