County Sued Over Woman’s Death : Courts: The lawsuit contends paramedics administered the wrong medication. Thursday’s legal action was filed on behalf of her two daughters.

The family of a Cypress woman who died after being treated by Orange County paramedics charged in a lawsuit Thursday that she was given the wrong medication.

Lisa Fabozzi, 30, died on June 8, 1994, at La Palma Intercommunity Hospital.

The family’s attorney, Joseph Thielen, said she had begun experiencing mild chest pains and a fast heartbeat at a friend’s house shortly after midnight, and friends called paramedics.

On the way to the hospital, the suit contends, paramedics administered a drug that caused her death.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday by both former husbands of Fabozzi, who was twice divorced, on behalf of her two daughters.

The coroner’s office cleared the paramedics of any wrongdoing. Deputy Coroner William King said Friday that the cause of death was methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication and a heart flutter due to heart valve problems.

Sunny Bittle, senior claims representative for the County of Orange Risk Management, would not comment on the case, because it is in litigation.

“This case will be stayed along with the rest of the cases pending against the county” because of the bankruptcy, Bittle said.

Because of the bankruptcy, the county did not act on the claim, either to deny it or to offer a settlement, Thielen said. Normally, the county must deny a claim before a suit can be filed, but Thielen said he filed because the one-year statute of limitations is approaching.

“The county people [in claims] have been wonderful, and I believe if the county were not in bankruptcy, they would have settled,” he said.