Dr. Ayoub Sayeg Lawsuits: Michigan Called Him an 'Immediate Threat.' What Your New Looks Patients Should Know

Dr. Ayoub Sayeg is a plastic surgeon who lives in Franklin, Michigan, and whose website bio describes him as a well-respected plastic surgeon since 2002. He operated the Your New Looks plastic surgery center in West Bloomfield, with marketing that listed locations across metro Detroit, including Dearborn, Detroit, Southfield, Novi, and Lathrup Village. According to WDIV, a now-deleted Instagram page for the practice claimed 50,000 procedures. He also performed surgery in the Chicago area, where the wrongful death case arose.

Sayeg held hospital privileges at Henry Ford Health and Corewell Health, though he was not employed by either system. After the reporting, Corewell told WDIV that Sayeg is on leave and is not caring for any of its patients, and Henry Ford said he had not performed cases at its Southfield or Novi hospitals in more than two years. The gap between a heavily marketed cosmetic practice and the quieter record of complaints and litigation is a pattern we have written about before, including in our Dr. Dare Ajibade lawsuits article, our AirSculpt lawsuits article, and our Sono Bello lawsuits article.

This article makes allegations about a living, named physician. Each one is attributed to the court filing, state order, or news outlet that made it. A suspension is a regulatory action, not a criminal conviction, and the malpractice and wrongful death claims are civil allegations that a defendant is entitled to contest. For the general legal background on when a bad surgical outcome may amount to negligence, see our article on surgical errors.

The most serious matter in the public record is a wrongful death case out of Chicago. Idalia Corcoles, a 39-year-old mother of four, went in for liposuction and a tummy tuck in November 2019 at a surgical center on West 63rd Street. According to the lawsuit, she bled internally, suffered cardiac arrest, and died the next day. Her husband, Alejandro Cervantes, filed the wrongful death suit in 2021.

The plaintiffs alleged that Sayeg did not obtain medical clearance or perform a complete physical examination before the surgery, that he performed the operation improperly in a way that perforated the abdominal wall and lacerated the spleen, and that the surgical team ignored obvious signs she was in distress. News coverage of the trial reported that Sayeg testified he never checked on Corcoles after the procedure. The defense disputed gross negligence and argued the complications could not have been foreseen.

In December 2024, a Cook County jury found for the family and returned a $56 million verdict. With post-judgment interest added, the Chicago Sun-Times, Fox 32, and CBS Chicago reported the total judgment at roughly $66 million, one of the larger medical malpractice awards reported in Illinois that year. A jury verdict is a finding on that specific case and that specific patient. It is not a ruling on anyone else's care.

One fact in this story matters to patients well beyond this surgeon: a doctor can be suspended in one state and keep practicing somewhere else. Sayeg's license was suspended in Illinois in July 2026 and in Virginia in August 2026, yet his California license was still listed as active in September 2026, and the three state actions rested on different grounds. Medical licenses are granted state by state, and while states often act on one another's orders, the timing can lag by weeks or months.

That is why checking a surgeon's record before surgery, in every state where the surgeon has practiced, is worth the time it takes. Our article on how to check a surgeon's disciplinary record before surgery walks through the free state license lookups and what the public orders do and do not tell you. A clean record in your state does not always mean a clean record everywhere.

The multi-state pattern should feel familiar to readers in our home region. We covered a Virginia version of it in our Dr. Sasa Espino lawsuits article, where a surgeon surrendered a Virginia license while holding active licenses in other states. Sayeg's Virginia suspension puts a piece of this case inside the Virginia and DMV system the firm works in every day.

The investigative reporting that led to the Michigan suspension also surfaced older patient accounts. A woman WDIV identified only as Jolene said she had a breast reduction from Sayeg in the mid-2000s that left her, in her account, permanently disfigured and much smaller than she had asked for, and she later needed implants. She sued and the case settled; in the court documents, Sayeg expressly denied any liability. His attorney disputed her account. Her allegations were never proven, and the settlement resolved the case without any admission.

These accounts are one-sided until tested, and we include them because they are part of the public investigative record, not because they have been proven. The consistent thread across the complaints and the state actions is a dispute about what was agreed to, what was performed, and what the records show. Whether any individual patient has a claim depends on that patient's own medical records, not on headlines.