SAN DIEGO -- The daughters of the late fire chaplain Rabbi Aaron Gottesman have sued Sharp Memorial Hospital and the doctors who treated him days before his death in April 2005, it was reported Monday.

Judith and Ziva Gottesman claim the hospital and Gottesman's primary physician, the physician's partner and the emergency room doctor at Sharp Memorial were negligent in caring for the rabbi, resulting in his death, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

On Thursday, the suit, which seeks $250,000 in damages, was assigned an August trial date, the newspaper reported.

Aaron Gottesman had been fighting complications from diabetes for several years before he died at age 63.

On an April Saturday three days before his death, he woke with pain in his ribs. He was taken to Sharp Memorial's emergency room, Judith Gottesman told the newspaper.

She said her father was told he had a urinary tract infection and was sent home with medication, the Union-Tribune reported.

The following day, lab results showed the infection had spread. A hospital nurse faxed the results to Gottesman's primary doctor, Bryan Abramowitz, the newspaper reported.

Gottesman's family contacted Abramowitz's on-call partner, Brian First, when they became worried about the rabbi's worsening condition. First said not to worry, Judith Gottesman told the newspaper.

The following Monday, Gottesman told the newspaper, Abramowitz said he didn't need to see the rabbi. The family later learned Abramowitz had never received the complete lab results.

The next day, the rabbi was having trouble breathing. His wife took him back to the hospital, where he died.

Since the 1960s, the rabbi had responded to countless fires and crime scenes and had gone to hospital beds and funerals and kept a fire suit handy in the trunk of his car, the newspaper reported.