Grandmother settles malpractice suit with Cumberland County firm
Monday, March 16, 2009
A Cumberland County judge has approved a $525,000 insurance settlement that will benefit a 12-year-old West Shore boy whose mother died while undergoing medical treatment for allergies in August 2003.
The deal was sanctioned Wednesday by Judge Edward E. Guido nearly five years after Frances Angeloff of Summerdale filed a malpractice lawsuit over the death of her 25-year-old daughter, Selena Angeloff.
In the suit, Frances Angeloff claimed her daughter, who suffered from multiple allergies, died because of a lack of proper medical supervision by personnel of Medical Arts Allergy of Hampden Township, where she was being treated.
Frances Angeloff told Guido she agreed to the settlement "for the good of" her grandson, who lives with her. More than $300,000 will go into a structured settlement for Selena Angeloff's son. Most of that money won't be available to the boy until he becomes an adult.
The rest of the settlement proceeds will go to Villari, Brandes & Kline, the Conshohocken law firm that represented Frances Angeloff.
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