Fatal facelift: Family lawsuit will begin next month

THE multi-million-dollar lawsuit being taken by the family of a Limerick woman who died after undergoing a facelift by a discredited US plastic surgeon will open in the New York Supreme Court on February 21, the family’s lawyer revealed last night.

Kay Cregan, 41, who lived in Croom, Co Limerick, died after undergoing surgery at the Manhattan clinic of Dr Michael Evan Sachs on March 14, 2005.

She collapsed in a recovery room in his clinic and died on St Patrick’s Day having been transferred to the nearby St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital.