The estate of a tax attorney who died from a brain hemorrhage has settled its Essex County medical malpractice suit for $3 million. The suit claimed the physician failed to detect a brain abnormality when reading a test.
Alan Meller, then 57, underwent a magnetic resonance angiogram after suffering what he called “the worst headache of his life” on June 13, 2016. Neil Horner, a neuroradiologist with Summit Radiological Associates who interpreted the image, concluded that Meller’s cerebral vessels appeared “normal,” prompting Meller’s primary care doctor to advise him that he was likely suffering from adult-onset migraines, said plaintiffs lawyer Bruce Nagel of Nagel Rice in Roseland, who represented the plaintiff along with the firm’s Susan Connors.
