USA TODAY By Holly Baltz and Thao Nguyen
Former Florida Dr. Berto Lopez lost a malpractice case last month after a boy’s circumcision was botched in 2021.
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A former Florida doctor, who was found liable for $100 million last week in a medical malpractice case centered on an infant’s botched circumcision, has been linked to numerous mishandled procedures that include six patient deaths.
A Palm Beach County jury awarded the infant’s parents $100 million on Aug. 27 after the family accused former Dr. Berto Lopez of severing the child’s penis during a circumcision in 2021. Lopez, who had a 33-year career as an OB-GYN in Palm Beach County, performed the procedure 10 days after the Florida Board of Medicine voted to revoke his medical license.
During the trial, jurors heard from expert witnesses and the child’s family, and saw graphic photos of the circumcision. Attorney Gary Cohen, who represented the family, described the procedure that reduced the infant’s penis to a “bleeding, scabby mess.”
But that’s not the only procedure Lopez reportedly mishandled. Court and official records reviewed by The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Network, tied Lopez to at least 14 serious injuries to women and children, including six deaths.
Lopez had been named in four disciplinary cases and nine malpractice actions, including lawsuits over the deaths of two infants, an injury to another, and an 18-year-old mother who died in the 1990s. The average OB-GYN faces two or three lawsuits during a career…
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