The family of a woman who died after routine surgery has agreed to a $3.35 million settlement of her Middlesex County medical malpractice suit, Holland v. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Somerset. The settlement was approved in Superior Court in November 2020.

According to the suit, Maria Joyce Holland, 48, was on life support after receiving an excessive dose of an opioid drug.

She was admitted to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville in January 2016 for removal of an ovarian cyst. Holland was given a combination of drugs before the operation, including Fentanyl. After the procedure was complete, she was given an additional dose of Fentanyl because she complained of pain, said Robert Adinolfi of Gill & Chamas in Woodbridge, who handled the case along with the firm's Peter Chamas.