August 11, 2005
CLEARWATER - Michael Schiavo indicated this week that he may file a lawsuit alleging medical malpractice in the care of his late wife, Terri Schiavo.
His attorney filed a one-page petition asking for a 90-day extension of the statute of limitations to investigate a possible malpractice incident occurring around Aug. 14, 2003.
Schiavo did not indicate whom he might sue or why.
His attorney, Mark H. Perenich of Clearwater, did not return a call for comment.
Schiavo said in the petition that he was acting in his capacity as the "personal representative of the estate of Theresa Schiavo."
While he did not offer details, Schiavo said he was looking into a potential medical malpractice incident that occurred around Aug. 14, 2003 - about 19 months before his wife's death.
Around that date, Mrs. Schiavo was admitted to Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater at least twice for problems ranging from a bleeding esophagus to a urinary tract infection to pneumonia, attorneys and relatives said at the time.
His wife was transported from her room at Hospice House Woodside to Morton Plant on Aug. 13, 2003, after she coughed up blood, Schiavo attorney George Felos said at the time. Doctors first suspected she had a stomach ulcer, but later relatives said she had been treated for a bleeding esophagus.
She returned to the hospital on Aug. 24 and had a "substantial infection" and lung congestion, possibly pneumonia, attorneys said then.
At the time, Schiavo said his wife might die without medical treatment, and said doctors told him her prognosis was uncertain even with treatment.
He petitioned the court, asking that he be allowed to stop treatment.
Two months later, Mrs. Schiavo's feeding tube was removed on Oct. 15. She went six days without food or water before state lawmakers adopted "Terri's Law," allowing Gov. Jeb Bush to order doctors to reinsert the tube. Her feeding tube was removed again this year, and she died on March 31.
Mrs. Schiavo collapsed in her home in 1990 after suffering cardiac arrest. She was at the center of a legal battle between her parents, who thought she could be rehabilitated and wanted her to live, and her husband, who said his wife would not want to be kept alive in a persistent vegetative state.
Schiavo's petition is a routine filing in potential malpractice cases. Essentially, it gives him another 90 days to research his case before the statute of limitations runs out.
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This is bizarre; he wanted her to die so now he's suing over an event that could have hastened said death. His scumdeath attorney made such a big deal about how she wasn't even there, so why should he care. Is he trying to rehab his image into a "caring" person? Or just after the money.
According to HINO Terri was already dead before she died, so what does he care what kind of care she got or not since to him she was dead.
Didn't Michael say Terri died on the night she collapsed? Isn't that on her gravestone? So how does he explain suing for her rehabilitation and now this lawsuit? Oh, yes, Michael doesn't need to explain his lies and contradictory statements - Judge Greer and the state of Florida will give him a pass and cater to his every whim.
Michael's obssessed and is just NOT going to move on is he? He's got unbelievable gaul.