The family of a man who died after his cardiologist allegedly failed to diagnose his coronary artery disease agreed to a $1 million settlement in their Ocean County medical malpractice suit, Cweiber v. Kadosh. The settlement was paid on July 19.

Hillel Cweiber visited his physician, Yisrael Kadosh, at Lakewood Cardiology twice in January 2019 with complaints of intermittent chest pain, but the doctor told Cweiber he was not in imminent danger of a heart attack and suggested he might be suffering from stomach problems, according to Matthew Mendelsohn of Mazie, Slater, Katz & Freeman in Roseland. Then, four days after the second office visit, Cweiber, after traveling to Florida to visit his mother, complained of chest pain and died of a massive heart attack that was attributed to hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, said Mendelson, who represented Cweiber’s estate and his widow, Chaya, along with Cory Rothbort of the same firm.