LASH v. SPARTA COMMUNITY HOSP. DIST.

No. 21-2778.

38 F.4th 540 (2022)

Dienna M. LASH, as Administrator of the Estate of Glenn Lash, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SPARTA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 22, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Todd Blotevogel , Charles Armbruster, III , Roy C. Dripps , Attorneys, Armbruster, Dripps, Winterscheidt & Blotevogel, LLC, Maryville, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Edward S. Bott, Jr. , Robert L. Duckels , Attorneys, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Easterbrook, Brennan, and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


Glenn Lash, an obese, sixty-year-old man with a remote history of smoking, went to Sparta Community Hospital District ("Sparta hospital") with complaints of shortness of breath and recent chest discomfort. The doctor diagnosed him with an "anxiety reaction." Lash died the next evening of a heart attack. His widow, Dienna...

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