A $1.28 million settlement in a Sussex County medical malpractice case, Estate of Wyckoff v. Emiliani, alleging that doctors failed to detect terminal cancer following a woman’s ulcer surgery, was paid on Oct. 21.
Dina Wyckoff went to the emergency room at St. Clare’s Hospital in Denville with severe abdominal pain, and underwent surgery to repair a stomach ulcer, during which a biopsy of the ulcer was taken and sent to a pathologist, defendant Seraphim Rimarenko M.D., according to the estate’s attorney, Paul da Costa of Snyder Sarno D’Aniello Maceri & da Costa in Roseland.
