Family sues city
The mother of a Lincoln woman who died after an asthma episode at her home is suing the city in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Rita Choquette, the mother of Emy C. Choquette, claims city emergency medical staff who were dispatched to the residence failed to, among other things, timely begin appropriate medical procedures on her daughter.
Emy Choquette, 28, never fully regained consciousness after the Aug. 10 episode, according to the lawsuit. She died Aug. 14.
The lawsuit, filed last week in Lancaster County District Court by Omaha attorney David Domina, names as defendants the city of Lincoln, Lancaster County and six emergency medical technicians. The technicians’ names were unknown to the plaintiff at the time of the filing.
According to the lawsuit, Emy Choquette began to feel ill the evening of Aug. 10. When medication and a nebulizer failed to relieve her symptoms, she administered to herself two injections of another prescribed medication, the lawsuit stated.
In the meantime, Emy Choquette’s sister, who was at the home at the time, dialed 911. Emergency medical staff arrived about six minutes later, the lawsuit said.