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Panera Bread reaches a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a former Penn student
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Panera Bread reaches a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a former Penn student

Panera Bread has reached an agreement Wrongful death lawsuit filed by former Penn studentSarah Katz.

The attorney representing Katz’s family told CBS News Philadelphia that the matter has been resolved and she could not provide further details.

Earlier this year Katz’s parents spoke to CBS News Philadelphia in an exclusive interview.

Katz’s parents, Jill and Michael, told her 21 year old daughter gave up energy drinks because she suffered from a heart condition called long QT syndrome, which disrupts the heart’s electrical activity.

Two years ago, Sarah Katz bought a Charged Lemonade drink at a Philadelphia Panera Bread and suffered cardiac arrest and died a few hours later. The parents said their daughter had no idea the drink contained caffeine.

The Katzes previously told CBS News Philadelphia that they received a call that their daughter had collapsed at a restaurant and rushed out of their Jersey City home and went straight to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

The parents said when they arrived, medical staff tried to resuscitate Sarah Katz but were unable to save her.

Aside from the agonizing and shocking loss of their daughter, Jill and Michael Katz had no answer as to what caused their daughter’s cardiac arrest and death.

It wasn’t until a few months later, when they went back to Philadelphia to clean up their apartment, that they learned new information from their roommate, who had started putting together clues after her death.

“She says, ‘I think I know what happened to Sarah,’ and I wasn’t sure if I should talk to you about it or not,” Jill Katz said of the conversation with her daughter’s former roommate. “But you know she recently started drinking those supercharged Panera sodas and she knew Sarah had been staying away from energy drinks and there’s a big drink in the apartment.”

The Katzes discovered that Sarah Katz had purchased and drank a charged soda at the Panera on South 40th Street in Philadelphia.

The parents told CBS News Philadelphia that their daughter never did it Panera Breads Supercharged Lemonade if she had known what was inside.

Since her death additional lawsuits were filed over the Charged Lemonade drink.

Panera Bread has since removed supercharged sodas from its menu.

CBS News Philadelphia has reached out to Panera Bread for comment and is waiting to hear back.

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