David Grubb and a Michigan hospital have reached a settlement agreement over the death of Grubb's daughter, Jessie, who died last year of a prescription drug overdose after a procedure at the hospital.
Jessie Grubb died at age 30 last March in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after a communication mix-up by her doctors. Her seven year battle with heroin addiction was credited with personally affecting President Barack Obama and changing his thinking on the nationwide opioid epidemic.
Obama met the Grubbs when he came to Charleston in 2015 to talk about the opioid epidemic.
Grubb went into St. Joseph Mercy Hospital for surgery, but her doctors and nurses never told her discharging doctor she was in recovery for heroin addiction. She was given a prescription for 50 opioid painkillers and died that night.
Lawyers representing Grubb last month filed a petition asking that a Kanawha Circuit judge create a case to "facilitate the settlement of wrongful death claims."
It will be up to Judge Duke Bloom to approve the proposed settlement agreement and, if he does, distribute the funds, according to the filing.
David Grubb is listed as administrator of the estate of his late daughter. He wasn't reached Saturday for comment.
A spokesman for the hospital or its parent company, Trinity Health Corporation of Michigan, which is also named in Grubb's petition, couldn't be reached this weekend.
Bloom had not yet scheduled a hearing on the settlement as of Friday.
The judge has also been asked by both parties to seal the case.
David and Kate Grubb drove last year from Charleston to Michigan for their daughter's surgery for an injury to her leg from running.
They were very careful, they previously told the Gazette-Mail.
Opioid painkillers have an almost identical molecular makeup to heroin. Jessie should not be given opioids after the surgery, her parents told her doctors. If opioids were absolutely necessary, they should be administered under the strictest supervision, her parents previously said.
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