A lawsuit filed by a man whose wife killed their two sons, then herself, shortly after a Colorado Springs hospital released her has apparently been settled.

Court documents filed Wednesday didn't list details, but indicated that the parties agreed to bear their own legal costs. Attorneys in the case didn't return calls seeking comment after business hours Wednesday night.

Donald Rifkin filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in April, accusing Memorial Hospital of failing to protect Julie Rifkin and their children when she was taken to the emergency room. She had told a co-worker she thought she would get a gun and kill herself and her sons.

She was treated and released from the hospital. The lawsuit stated she bought a gun the next day.

The bodies of his 41-year-old wife and their 12-year-old son, Gabriel, were found two days later, on April 24th, 2005. Thirteen-year-old son Nathan was shot in the head and died later that day.

Donald Rifkin had been laid off from a job in Colorado and was working in South Carolina at the time.

The suit also was filed against Clinton Fouss and clinical social worker Yvette Sletta, who spoke with Julie Rifkin.

The hospital, Fouss and Sletta had said Julie Rifkin's actions alone caused the deaths.