Federal Appellate Court Affirms Qualified Immunity For First Responders Who Pronounced Patient Dead Who Was Still Alive
Emergency medical personnel in Southfield, Michigan, pronounced Timesha Beauchamp dead when she was still alive. Beauchamp was placed in a body bag and transported to a funeral home, where an embalmer discovered that she was not dead. Beauchamp was hospitalized and died about six weeks later. Howard[...]