SUMMERSVILLE — A woman claims a medical practice, a pharmacy and a physician were all negligent and caused her mother's fatal overdose.
Dr. Margaret S. Wantz, Fairview Health Associates and Meadow River Health Care Associates, which is doing business as Craigsville Hometown Pharmacy were all named as defendants in the suit.
Kimberly Culver was a patient of Wantz, who was an employee of Fairview Health Associates, according to a complaint filed in Nicholas Circuit Court.
Layna Wayne, Culver's daughter, claims that while Culver was under Wantz's care, Wantz failed to do routine drug screenings and failed to document pill counts while prescribing her large doses of oxycodone for the long term.
Wayne claims the physician and her practice also failed to refer Culver to a pain clinic. She claims the pharmacy was negligent in filling her mother's prescriptions for oxycodone and fentanyl because it failed to question why she was being prescribed both drugs at the same time and failed to call the physician for an explanation.
Culver died of a drug overdose because of the defendants' alleged negligence, the complaint states.
Wayne is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. She is represented by William S. Druckman and Madonna C. Estep of the Law Offices of Druckman & Estep in Charleston and Paul T. Farrell Jr. of Farrell Law in Huntington.
Nicholas Circuit Court case number 20-C-13