Heather Pressdee

A Pittsburgh law firm has filed a wrongful death suit against Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, claiming a 43-year-old man died after he was injected with insulin by a former employee, Heather Pressdee.

Pressdee, 41, has been allegedly linked to the deaths of 17 nursing home patients at five facilities, including 10 patients at two Butler County facilities, including the Butler Township facility from the lawsuit, filed Wednesday, March 27.

Documents filed in May of last year allege Pressdee would inject patients with lethal doses of insulin while she served in managerial positions at the nursing facilities.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday is the fourth suit that Robert Peirce and Associates law firm of Pittsburgh has filed against the owners and operators of nursing facilities, which employed Pressdee.

The suit was filed on behalf of the family members of Nicholas Cymbol, 43, according to the firm. In January 2023, Pressdee was hired as unit manager of the cardinal unit at Sunnyview, where Cymbol resided, five months before his death, the suit said.

“The complaint alleged that Sunnyview administration failed to investigate Ms. Pressdee following a string of suspicious resident deaths in its facility in the months prior to Mr. Cymbol’s death,” the firm said in a news release Wednesday.

Days prior to Mr. Cymbol’s death on May 1, 2023, Pressdee commented that he “was going to be the next one to die,” the firm said in the news release.

“We were hired by the families of Heather Pressdee’s victims to get answers as to how she was permitted to continue working in these facilities, despite her erratic, disturbing and abusive behavior,” said Rob Peirce, managing partner of the firm. “The more our office has investigated, the more questions we have as to why these facilities allowed these tragedies to occur.”

Pressdee is being held in the Butler County Prison without bail on criminal homicide charges.

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