November 10, 2011, Jacksonville, Illinois
On December 13, 2005, a 64 year old woman with schizophrenia died of dehydration. The investigation following her death revealed that the woman's psychiatrist had discontinued her anti-psychotic medication discontinued two weeks earlier after being informed that public aid was no longer covering her anti-psychotic drug. Rapoport Law Offices filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that the failure to provide the woman with any antipsychotic medication caused her to stop eating and drinking resulting in her death by dehydration. Separate settlements were reached with the woman's treating psychiatrist and the pharmacy over their failures to act and communicate properly resulting in the woman not receiving any medication for her schizophrenia. Joshua L. Weisberg of Rapoport Law Offices served as lead counsel.
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