A Seattle plastic surgeon should pay $3.5m to Washington State and $1.5m to 21 000 sufferers to resolve allegations that he pressured sufferers to signal non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) then threatened them with authorized and monetary penalties in the event that they tried to jot down unhealthy evaluations on Google, Yelp, WebMD, and different third social gathering evaluate platforms.
The state additionally accused Javad Sajan of making pretend evaluations by pressuring employees to jot down them, and of writing constructive evaluations himself, then sending them to an abroad contractor whom he paid to publish them on-line.
Sajan rigged “greatest physician” competitions hosted by native media, the state alleged, by paying employees and contractors to vote for him as many instances as allowed, though they weren’t his sufferers. He additionally altered “earlier than and after” pictures on the web site of his clinic, Attract Esthetic Plastic Surgical procedure, to make his outcomes seem higher than they had been, the …