A woman seeks $10 million after a patient allegedly died after he was given the wrong prescription dosage of Seroquel, an antipsychotic.
Donna Wilson, as special administrator of the estate of Quinton Zapp, filed the complaint on Nov. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against the United States of America.
According to the complaint, Zapp saw doctors Aristedes Garces, Christopher Johnson and Paul Williams on April 17, 2019, for medical treatment at Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation in Salem. The defendant employed the physicians and other medical personnel at the facility.
While Zapp was in the defendant’s care, Wilson alleges the physicians negligently allowed and filled prescriptions of Seroquel 850mg daily, which is in excess of the maximum daily dosage. They also allegedly allowed for an early refill of the prescription of 120 pills.
As a result, Zapp died on April 17, 2019, the suit states.
Zapp’s death caused “grief, sorrow and permanent injuries and damages to the decedent’s next of kin who have been deprived of the reasonable value of his services, companionship, comfort, instruction, guidance, counsel, training, love and support that they would have received had the decedent not died.”
Wilson seeks a judgment in her favor in excess of $10 million, plus court costs.
She is represented by Joseph Bartholomew of Cook Bartholomew Shevlin Cook & Jones LLP in Belleville.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois case number 3:20-cv-1216