DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A DeKalb County judge has ordered “the dancing doctor” Windell Boutte to pay $700,000 to her former medical malpractice insurance company.
Decatur attorney Matthew Carlton represents Doctor’s Professional Liability Company Inc.
According to a lawsuit filed in DeKalb County, the insurer represented Boutte in 28 medical malpractice cases.
“In 25 years of practicing law. I’ve never seen so many claims on a single policy. It’s pretty incredible,” Carlton told Channel 2 consumer investigator Justin Gray.
The suit alleges Boutte owed a $25,000 deductible for each case and has never paid the insurance company the $700,000.
Boutte has been the focus of a series of Channel 2 Action News investigations dating to 2018.
In a November undercover investigation, we told you she is now going by the name Catherine Davis and was listed as the owner of Eden Med Spa in Austin, Texas.
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Since that story aired, references to her being a doctor were removed from Eden’s website and then the med spa announced she had left the business.
“I was shocked when I when I saw your article. I couldn’t believe it. I was literally speechless. And I don’t get speechless very often,” Carlton said.
The Dancing Doctor videos from the operating table Boutte once posted on social media got viral attention after our 2018 Channel 2 Action News investigation.
But Ojay Liburd was thinking about his mother Icilma Cornelius, who was about to be married and earn her Ph.D. in nursing, when a cosmetic surgery by Boutte went very wrong.
Cornelius suffered permanent brain damage.
“In my 20’s, I was now the parent,” Liburd said.
He became his mother’s caretaker every day for seven years until his mother passed away last July from complications of those injuries.
His was one of more than a dozen malpractice settlements and rulings with Boutte that resulted in millions of dollars in judgments.
The state medical board ultimately suspended Boutte’s license.
Catherine Davis is Boutte’s middle and maiden name. Nothing about Boutte’s troubling legal and professional history comes up with a Google search of that new identity.
Whether she goes by Boutte or Davis, she does not have an active medical license in Georgia or Texas.
Boutte was served with the lawsuit back on July 1 in Texas but never responded.
So, on Dec. 11, Judge Kimberly Alexander issued an order in favor of the insurance company requiring Boutte to pay $700,000 plus interest and court costs.
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