A woman who became paraplegic after her spinal infection went untreated agreed on Nov. 27 to a $5.9 million settlement of her Essex County suit, Lee v. Agresti.
Andrea Lee, of Irvington, was diagnosed with osteomyelitis of the lumbar spine while a patient at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark in January 2007. When she was transferred to a rehabilitation center, the infectious disease doctors at UMDNJ wrote a note recommending that she receive intravenous antibiotics for the next six weeks. She was moved to Arbor Glen, a rehabilitation center in Cedar Grove, where she received antibiotics for the duration of her 10-day stay.
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