Monday, March 18, 2019

Suit alleges nursing home's negligence caused patient's death

EDWARDSVILLE — A granddaughter is suing after her grandmother allegedly died from sepsis and infections.

Jennifer Fish, granddaughter of Maria L. Stiles, deceased, filed a complaint March 5 in Madison County Circuit Court  against Larry Parker, Petersen Health Care Inc., Robings LLC, Peterson Health Business LLC, Senior Services Plus Inc, Southwestern Illinois Visiting Nurse Association, Duane Pingsterhaus and Shannon Markus, alleging wrongful death and negligence.

According to the complaint, on March 6, 2017, Stiles died at St. Anthony's Health Center in Alton from sepsis and infections. The suit states that Stiles was not cared for appropriately by Senior Services Plus and the other defendants.

Fish seeks at least $50,000, plus punitive damages, attorney fees, court costs, expenses and all further just relief. She is represented by attorney Bryan J. Schrempf of Schrempf, Kelly & Napp LTD in Alton.

Madison County Circuit Court Case number 19-L-301

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Suit alleges nursing home's negligence caused patient's death

2 comments:

StandUp said...

I am sure nobody is keeping track, but if they did, the number of deaths caused by neglect would be shocking.

Jericho said...

Stand up, you've got a good point. Nobody's keeping track of this and if they did, I agree, it would be shocking.