Source: AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wife of a man who died during a hair transplant operation has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Southern California cosmetic surgery office. The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed Monday in Superior Court, said attorney Ron Wilson who represents Yvonne Robison-Riley and her three adult children. It names Crown Cosmetic Surgery of Los Angeles and several doctors as defendants.

According to the action, Robison-Riley’s 52-year-old husband, Walter Riley, went to Crown Cosmetic for a hair transplant on April 27, 2006. “It’s a several-hour procedure. They anesthetize you, they do the hair grafts and you come out looking great later. Or that’s what’s supposed to happen,” Wilson said Wednesday. “With Mr. Riley, he went in and within an hour he was dead.” Wilson said a medical expert retained by his law firm determined Riley had been given an overdose of anesthetic. A person who returned a call from Crown Cosmetic said the company’s lawyer had advised that Crown not comment on the matter.