Jury selection got underway Monday in a medical malpractice trial stemming from the 1991 Crown Heights riots.

The family of Hasidic scholar Yankel Rosenbaum had to wait a week for jury selection to begin, after the judge postponed the case last Monday.

Family members are accusing Kings County Hospital of medical malpractice. Rosenbaum died at the hospital after being stabbed during the 1991 riots, and his family claims the hospital botched his emergency care.

The suit also accuses the hospital of misplacing and altering records to cover up Rosenbaum's death.

Sources tell NY1 the city has tried to settle out of court by offering the Rosenbaum family $$1 million, but the city would not claim responsibility for Rosenbaum's death, so the family has rejected the settlement.

The family is seeking $$10 million in compensation. The hospital has yet to comment on the lawsuit.

Rosenbaum, a Jewish religious student, was stabbed in an angry mob on the first of three nights of racially-charged riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in August of 1991. The violence was sparked by the death of Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black boy who was hit by a Hasidic man running a red light to catch up with a motorcade.

The man convicted in Rosenbaum's death, Lemrick Nelson, who has admitted to the stabbing, was released from a halfway house last month after finishing a 10-year federal sentence.