IOWA CITY — Executors of the estate of a 62-year-old Illinois man who died of pancreatic cancer in November 2024 are suing University of Iowa Community Home Care for “misprogramming Michael Stohl’s chemotherapy pump to deliver his 5FU treatment in 14 hours rather than 46 hours.”
Stohl, of Geneseo, visited the UI Health Care hematology and oncology clinic May 16, 2024, for his cancer, having already completed eight rounds of chemotherapy, according to a lawsuit against UI Community Home Care filed May 15, 2026, in Johnson County District Court.
The day before that clinic visit, Stohl had surgery on his pancreas, and imaging showed “no evidence of recurrent disease with stable liver lesions presumed to be benign,” according to the lawsuit. Stohl’s oncologist prescribed him ongoing treatment via intravenous chemotherapy to be administered at 3.5 ml an hour for 46 hours…