RITTER DEFENDANTS BLAME ALIAS FOR DEATH
LATEST: Late actor JOHN RITTER is to blame for his own death because he used an alias when he checked into hospital the day he died, a court has been told.
Ritter’s widow Amy Yasbeck is suing two doctors she claims misdiagnosed and mistreated the Bad Santa actor prior to his death in 2003, aged 54.
She claims an aortic tear Ritter was suffering from would have been diagnosed if hospital staff had carried out an X-ray.
But lawyers representing the medics claim Ritter asked to be registered at the St Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California under the name Edwin Marcus in a bid to protect his privacy.
The attorneys allege the name change created confusion at the hospital, which prevented the X-ray from being carried out.
Yasbeck is seeking $67 million (£33.5 million) in damages.
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