A Middlesex County judge on April 23 approved the final portion of a $6.5 million settlement in a medical malpractice suit, Estate of Horvath v. Alegre-Gomez, lodged on behalf of a 53-year-old woman who died while being treated for pneumonia and other respiratory issues.
According to court documents and counsel, on March 28, 2015, Marie Horvath was brought by ambulance to St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick after several days of fever, cough, headache and confusion, and was diagnosed with pneumonia, hypoxia and sepsis. Her condition worsened, including development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and she was treated with antibiotics and oxygen, said her family’s lawyer, Daryl Zaslow of Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow in Edison.
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