Gary Miller/FilmMagicThe legal battle surrounding the 2010 death of Slipknot bassist Paul Gray appears to have come to an end.
According to the Des Moines Register, the family of the late musician settled their lawsuit against the hospital company UnityPoint-Des Moines and Dr. Daniel Baldi, who was treating Gray when he died of a drug overdose at age 38.
Gray’s widow Brenna first filed the lawsuit in 2014, but it was dismissed by a judge because Iowa’s statute of limitations for medical malpractice is two years after a death. However, in 2016, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that Gray’s family could press charges on behalf of Gray’s daughter, October, who had not been born at the time of her father’s death.
The case was set to go to trial earlier this week, but was settled over the weekend.
In 2012, Baldi was charged with multiple counts of involuntary manslaughter, which alleged that the doctor caused the death of Gray and several other patients by prescribing them narcotic painkillers despite signs of drug addiction and abuse. Baldi was acquitted in 2014, and his license to practice medicine was reinstated in 2016.
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