Crime & Safety
Family Of Doctor Accused Of Murder To Pay $4M To Victim's Family
Malgorzata "Margaret" Daniels' daughter filed a lawsuit in 2022 claiming wrongful death and fraud and has since been awarded $4 million.
ALGONQUIN, IL — The family of an Algonquin eye doctor — who died of COVID-19 while awaiting trial on murder charges — has been ordered to pay $4 million to the daughter of the woman Anthony Prate is accused of stabbing to death.
Prate, 59, met Malgorzata "Margaret" Daniel, 48, online and had been dating her for a few months when he allegedly stabbed her 30 times after a dinner party at her home in Schaumburg in November 2019. Prate was charged with first-degree murder in Cook County in connection with Daniel's death and was out on bail when he contracted, and died, of COVID-19 in December 2021.
Daniels' daughter, Dominika Daniel, 29, of Itasca, filed a lawsuit in 2022 claiming wrongful death and fraud and has since been awarded $4 million, Shaw Local News Media is reporting.
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The lawsuit claims Daniel and her sister, Patrycja "Tricia" Daniel, 31, suffered "personal and pecuniary loss" and that loss includes "loss of money, benefits, goods, services, companionship, society and emotional support ... grief, sorrow and mental anguish" because of their mother's death.
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