The executor of a St. Clair County woman's estate is suing a medical facility, alleging neglect led her death.
Wilbur J. Meyer Jr., executor of the estate of Dolores M. Ervin, filed a lawsuit July 16 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Protestant Memorial Medical Center, doing business as Memorial Care Center, alleging negligence under the Nursing Home Care Act.
According to the complaint, Dolores M. Ervin suffered a hip fracture June 9, 2013, after which she was admitted to Belleville Memorial Hospital. After hip replacement surgery, she was admitted June 25, 2014, to Memorial Care Center, Belleville. Less than a month later, the suit says, she endured an injury to her right foot after an incident caused by medical staff while she was in a wheelchair. After several back-and-forth visits to and from the hospital and the care center, the suit alleges, Ervin died Sept. 16, 2013, at 87.
The plaintiff alleges are negligence and wrongful death.
Wilbur J. Meyer Jr. seeks at least $50,000 in damages, court costs, attorney fees and a jury trial. He is represented by attorneys Stephen C. Buser of the Law Office of Stephen C. Buser in Columbia, and Daniel J. Hayes of Belleville.
St. Clair County Circuit Court case number 15-L-401.
