Dance instructor Jill Jacobs went into NYU Langone Medical Center in 2009 to remove a fibroid from her uterus, Daily News reports. Instead, doctors performed a total hysterectomy.
Jacobs, now 54, said she was pressured before the operation to sign a consent form that gave the surgeon permission to remove her reproductive organs if she had cancer. But the night before surgery, a blood test revealed there was no cancer.
The Manhattan Supreme Court jury awarded Jacobs $142,000 in damages – a fraction of the $5 million Jacobs was asking for when she sued the hospital in 2010.
