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LONDON, February 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A pensioner "would not have died in the time and place that she did" was it not for a fall she suffered whilst at a Halstead care home, an inquest has found. Following a three-day jury inquest at Chelmsford Coroner's Court, the Coroner Mrs Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded a narrative verdict on Wednesday (6 February) after a jury found that the death of 84-year-old Ivy Fitch was "on the balance of probabilities" a result of the...

LONDON, January 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- An inquest in Norwich has heard how a young woman involved in a road accident [http://www.fentons.co.uk/road-accident-claims ] collision might have lived if emergency services had acted sooner to remove her from the car. Following a two-day hearing into the death of Catherine Barton, 27, of Brandon, the Coroner Mr Armstrong recorded a narrative verdict in which he cited "individual and systemic failings" in the emergency response...

DARIEN, Ill., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Quotes, Inc. is reissuing a press release today in order to correct a previous transcription error on the February 20, 2012, version that addresses this same subject matter. Life Quotes wants to remind consumers that a little-known side benefit of the dreaded life insurance exam is that it might uncover health problems that you didn't even know were there. It's possible that the simple life insurance paramedical examination can...

OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jerald and Sandy Wolkoff attended a deposition for the wrongful death of their 30 year old son Steven Wolkoff. They were shocked to learn that the office of Robert Foucrault, the San Mateo County Coroner, had retained parts of their son's brain. The Wolkoffs were not informed by the Coroner's office that parts of Steven Wolkoff's brain had been retained at the time he was released to their custody for burial. After having buried their...

Coroners are more likely to hold inquests for deaths involving younger people or people who died of fatal complications from medical care, according to a study from University of Melbourne experts and published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal.) Coroners must usually be notified of a death if it was violent or unexpected, if the identity of the deceased is not known, or if the deceased was in the custody or care of the state when he or she died. Australian researchers...

Coroners are more likely to hold inquests for deaths involving younger people or people who died of fatal complications from medical care, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Australian researchers compared characteristics of deaths investigated through inquests with characteristics of the much larger number of investigations that take place behind closed doors. They looked at data on 20 379 deaths in five Australian states over seven and a half...

Editorial: Coroners' verdicts and suicide statistics in England and Wales The increasing use of "narrative verdicts" by coroners in England and Wales may be leading to greater underestimation of suicide rates, warn experts on bmj.com today, based on ongoing research part funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Professor David Gunnell at the University of Bristol and colleagues from the Universities of Oxford and Manchester say changes are needed urgently to ensure...

Dead Users Number 10,000 WASHINGTON, May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of cases in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System's (NamUs) two databases has reached a combined total of more than 15,000 and the number of registered users has grown to 10,000 since NamUs was launched in January 2009. To date, NamUs is credited with resolving 62 of the missing and unidentified person cases in its databases. "Reaching 15,000 cases illustrates the exponential growth of...

If legislation passes that would require nursing home deaths to be reported to county coroner offices, those coroners would need proper funding to carry out examinations, Kentucky personal injury attorney J. Marshall Hughes says. Bowling Green, Kentucky (PRWEB) February 11, 2011 A recently issued report on the state of autopsies in the U.S. highlights the need to require adequate funding for autopsies of Kentucky nursing home deaths, Bowling Green personal injury lawyer J. Marshall...

WASHINGTON, June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is hosting a symposium on forensic death investigations in Scottsdale, Ariz., June 7 - 9, 2010. OJP's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is sponsoring the event. Today's closing remarks at 12:15 are open to media. The symposium brings together for the first time a multidisciplinary group of criminal justice practitioners (medical examiners, coroners, death investigators, and other...