Janet M Levin

in 2002 for causing "personal injuries and conscious pain and suffering during his lifetime which resulted in his wrongful death" through malpractice. He was similarly sued in 1999 by the estate of Janet Levin for causing her to become addicted to narcotics, which allegedly contributed to her death.

On Thursday, the Guardian reported that according to court papers, in April 2002 Bornstein agreed to pay $86,250 to the family of a patient, Janet Levin, who died allegedly after falling when she took unhealthy amounts of prescription drugs Bornstein had given her unnecessarily