Jacobi Medical Center took my mom's organs without permission! Pay up!

Jo Drever says doctors at Jacobi Medical Center never bothered to ask her consent before removing her mother's body parts after she died unexpectedly of a heart attack on Aug. 25, 2009.

Drever said she didn't find out until the morning after her mother, Margaret Lanza, died that her organs had been harvested. She was cleaning out her mother's Bronx apartment when she received a call from the New York Organ Donor Network thanking her for the donation.

"To get that phone call, it was just devastating," Drever said.

The city, Jacobi Medical Center and the New York Organ Donor Network are named as defendants in the suit filed yesterday in Bronx Supreme Court.

In a separate suit, Drever's lawyer, Bonita Zelman, is suing the state for mistakenly entering Lanza's name as an organ donor on her driver's license renewal.