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WESTWOOD (KTLA)--Attorney Mark Geragos says he plans to file a lawsuit on behalf of the family of a 17-year-old girl who died just hours after her health insurer agreed to pay for a liver transplant.

The parents of Nataline Sarkisyan removed her from life support Thursday.

"Now we have to start the healing process to try to figure out what happened and why it happened," said a friend of the family.

Nataline had been in a vegetative state for three weeks, her mother Hilda Sarkisyan told the Daily News.

CIGNA initially declined to pay for the transplant for Nataline because her plan did not cover "experimental, investigational and unproven services," her doctors said.

The denial prompted a rally by Armenians outside CIGNA's Glendale offices attended by a crowd estimated by organizers at 150. Hundreds of telephone callers also clogged lines at CIGNA offices around the nation today on Nataline's behalf, organizers said.