Parents of Pa. clinic shooting victim sue lawyers
PITTSBURGH (AP) – The parents of a therapist fatally shot by a psychotic gunman at a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital have sued claiming their former attorneys tried to coerce them into accepting a $1.5 million settlement with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Harry and Mary Schaab, of Greensburg, are suing Farrell & Reisinger and three of the firm’s attorneys.
Their 25-year-old son, Michael Schaab, was killed when mentally ill gunman John Shick opened fire at UPMC’s Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic on March 8, 2012. Shick also wounded five others before campus police fatally shot him.
The Schaabs claim the since-scuttled settlement wrongly precluded them from suing anyone else. An attorney defending the law firm says the case has no merit, in part, because the Schaabs never expressed an interest in suing anybody other than UPMC.