North Carolina medical examiner News

North Carolina officials have agreed to pay $425,000 to the family of a man who was mistakenly declared dead and shipped to a morgue in 2005. The Charlotte Observer reports the payment settles a lawsuit that alleges the mix-up by …

A North Carolina agency’s ruling that a family should be paid nearly $400,000 for their anguish after a medical examiner misidentified a body and sent it to the wrong funeral home could open the door to similar lawsuits. The actions …