The family of a doctor who died at a Seminole County senior living home is suing the facility for wrongful death — alleging his caregiver was asleep in a car after smoking marijuana and missed the doctor’s calls for help.

Dr. Periakaruppa Chockalingam, an Indian immigrant who spent 45 years as a cardiologist in Sebring, died at The Addison of Oviedo senior assisted living facility on Dec. 15. at the age of 81. His wife Mallika filed a lawsuit against the facility’s operators — Sonida Oviedo, LLC and Capital Senior Living, Inc. — on Wednesday saying her husband’s death was preventable and caused by gross neglect.

“We are bringing this lawsuit because Dr. Chockalingam’s death was not an accident, but rather it was the foreseeable result of chronic understaffing, inadequate training, and a

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