A $5.5 million settlement has been reached in a medical malpractice suit in the case of a high school principal who died during a bone marrow donation procedure.

The settlement was reached in Union County Superior Court between the estate of Derrick Nelson and the defendants, anesthesiologist Jerry Baratta and Hackensack Anesthesiology Associates. The agreement calls for attorney fees of $1.37 million for the estate’s lawyer, David Mazie of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman of Roseland, to be drawn from the settlement.