BELLEVILLE — A man who is administrator of his deceased wife's estate has filed a wrongful death claim against Robert W. Garner, D.O., and Belleville Family Medical Associates Ltd., alleging negligence in medical care.
Ralph Joseph, as special administrator of the estate of Angela Joseph, filed a complaint on Nov. 14 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against the defendants, alleging that they negligently deviated from the standards of medical care procedures.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that on June 13, Angela Joseph was under the defendants' care, and two days later she died. The plaintiff holds the defendants responsible for allegedly failing to perform adequate diagnostic testing or to take an appropriate medical history, and for failing to diagnose Metformin-induced lactic acidosis.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks judgment against each defendant for damages greater than $75,000, plus costs of this suit. He is represented by Thomas Q. Keefe Jr. of Keefe, Keefe & Unsell PC in Belleville.
St. Clair County Circuit Court case number 16-L-608