PHILADELPHIA (KYW) –
Panera Bread reached a settlement within the wrongful demise lawsuit involving former Penn scholar, Sarah Katz.
The lawyer representing Katz’s household instructed CBS Information Philadelphia the matter has been resolved and he or she couldn’t present some other particulars.
Earlier this yr, Katz’s mother and father talked with CBS Information Philadelphia in an unique interview.
Katz’s mother and father, Jill and Michael, mentioned their 21-year-old daughter prevented vitality drinks as a result of she had a coronary heart situation, known as Lengthy QT syndrome, which disrupts the guts’s electrical exercise.
Two years in the past, Sarah Katz purchased a Charged Lemonade drink from a Philadelphia Panera Bread and hours later she went into cardiac arrest and died. The mother and father mentioned their daughter had no concept there was caffeine within the drink.
The Katzes beforehand instructed CBS Information Philadelphia that they had obtained a cellphone name that their daughter collapsed at a restaurant and rushed from their house in Jersey Metropolis and drove straight to Penn Presbyterian Medical Heart.
The mother and father mentioned once they arrived, medical workers was making an attempt to resuscitate Sarah Katz, however they had been unable to avoid wasting her.
Along with the excruciating and surprising lack of their daughter, Jill and Michael Katz had no solutions as to what precipitated their daughter to have cardiac arrest and die.
It wasn’t till just a few months later once they drove again to Philadelphia to scrub out her house that they realized a brand new piece of knowledge from her roommate who had began piecing collectively clues after her demise.
“She says, ‘I feel I do know what occurred to Sarah,’ and I wasn’t certain, you recognize, to speak to you about it or not,” Jill Katz mentioned of the dialog along with her daughter’s former roommate. “However, you recognize, that she began not too long ago ingesting these Panera Charged Lemonades and he or she knew that Sarah stayed away from vitality drinks, and there is a massive one within the house.”
The Katzes decided Sarah Katz had bought and drank a Charged Lemonade from the Panera on South fortieth Avenue in Philadelphia.
The mother and father instructed CBS Information Philadelphia their daughter by no means would have had Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade if she had recognized what was in it.
Since her demise, different lawsuits have been filed over the Charged Lemonade drink.
Panera Bread has since eliminated charged lemonades from their menu.
CBS Information Philadelphia has reached out to Panera Bread for remark and is ready to listen to again.
