Posted on 10/09/2020 4:02:02 PM PDT by simpson96
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said Thursday he has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the city of Southfield and four of its paramedics on behalf of a woman who was declared dead and left at a Detroit funeral home for hours before anyone realized she was still alive.
Fieger said he filed the suit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The suit names the city and four city employees, Michael Storms, Scott Rickard, Phillip Mulligan and Jake Kroll.
The woman, Timesha Beauchamp, 20, was in a body bag for at least two hours before being found alive by workers at the funeral home on Aug. 23, according to the attorney.
"The State of Michigan has suspended the licenses of the EMS employees involved," Feiger said in a Thursday statement.
"All the telemetry evidence shows that Timesha was alive when EMS declared her dead," he said. " As a result of being declared dead, she was left without oxygen for 4 hours, suffering severe hypoxic brain damage. Timesha has been hospitalized since these events and remains in critical condition. All of this could have been avoided had more care been taken.
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The article doesn’t say she was an addict.
A 20 year old dies on a private home, and you don’t take her to the hospital for autopsy or toxicology?
Must be easy to murder people in Detroit?
Something is very wrong here.
Figures that scumbag Fieger is all over this. For scale this guy is such a jerk Chris Matthews once called him the most obnoxious man in America.
She has Cerebral Palsy........wheel chair bound.
The doctor declared her dead without ever seeing the body.
I call that negligence.
Yes. I got that on the initial read of the article.
A lifetime of care for a young lady brain damaged by either incompetent or malicious action will eat up that much money in a hurry.
It would be interesting to hear the rest of the story, but that would take an old style journalist to dig out.
I remember hearing about a case of that when I was a youth. Something went wrong, and the lady blew out the wall of the apartment. She survived the event with some flash burns.
Well, you know. There are other ways.
I dont think anyone should. I just dont think its necessary to involve anyone else. It perverts the medical profession. And of course greatly harms all involved.
The machines said she was alive. Either they ignored it or could not read it.
She was disabled so maybe they decided she was NWS. Nasty thought but it is possible.
De amberlamps - bring dem for Geoffy Fieger...
No mention of the Doctor at the other end of the telemetry link? Was there no Doctor watching and directing the EMS techs? And how come EMS techs in Michigan can make a determination when someone is dead or not?
Am I the only one that took the article seriously?
In my best Emily Litella voice, "nevermind."
That Doctor should be named in the lawsuit.
Niot enough. No amount would make me happy after that!
I have long thought that damages in this type of case should be calculated by a simple formula:
Cost of current medical bills as a result of the injury
Cost of future medical bills treatmetns (estimated)
Loss of wages
equal amount of lost wages for pain and suffering
Plus 3x the amount of life insurance held by the victim if the victim dies or is permanently unable to work
Cost of legal and court fees
x1 - if accidental
x2 - by malfeasance
x3 - if intentional and/or attempts to hide liability
Geoffrey Fieger makes ambulance-chasers look like model citizens.
Hard to believe that his late brother was Doug Fieger of The Knack.
Fieger probably wants $45 million.
Yeah that’s always a great piece of trivia. It was a great day when Engler just crushed Fieger in the Governor’s race.
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