The family of a woman who died after an emergency room doctor allegedly failed to treat her kidney failure agreed to a $1.375 million settlement in a Monmouth County medical malpractice suit, Grazette v. Corcoran, on March 3.

Temora Cortes-Grazette, then 44, went to the emergency room at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune on Jan. 18, 2017, after she fainted and injured her left ankle. She went to the emergency room on the instruction of her primary care physician, who told her to determine whether the ankle was fractured and to have blood work to discover what caused her to lose consciousness.

At the hospital, her ankle was found to be broken and was placed in a cast. She also received bloodwork that showed her creatinine level was five times the normal level, indicating that she was suffering acute kidney failure. Her attending physician in the emergency room, Gregory Corcoran, never called for a consultation from a kidney specialist or addressed the abnormal lab results, the suit claimed. Corcoran also did not indicate in the discharge instructions that Cortes-Grazette should see a kidney specialist, according to John Mennie of Schibell & Mennie in Oakhurst, who represents the estate of Cortes-Grazette and her husband and executor, Adrian Grazette.