Man’s ear infection spread to his brain. His family claims it could’ve been caught before he died

Man’s ear infection spread to his brain. His family claims it could’ve been caught before he died

A Connecticut man who went to an urgent health care facility with an earache died about three weeks later from infection of the middle ear that led to a bone infection and then a brain abscess, an alleged result of medical negligence, according to a lawsuit filed by his family. Serhii Zaiats died on Sept. 20, 2025, and a subsequent autopsy confirmed his cause of death, the suit says. There was failure “to timely diagnose that the plaintiff deced…