seniorjudge said:
http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title34/ar23/ch1.html
Read this over; consult with a personal injury attorney if you feel you have a wrongful death suit.
We had several attorneys look at it and they all have said this case if one of the most bazaar situations they have ever seen!
They say since she has a husband, he would have to be the one to bring any suits but then again, he could be found negligent here!
He could be part of the problem!
When she died, she was at home and her husband never called 911. He called his friend, who happened to be the undertaker, who came over and got her body!
He did call her brother who notified the rest of us about her death and we were shocked as her death was not expected!
We asked for an autopsy to be done and both the undertaker and husband tried to discourage it but we insisted. The undertaker then embalmed her body before it could be done.
Meanwhile apparently the coroner's office found out about the death from the news paper people and stepped in and said they were immediately taking over!
The undertaker told them that they would find nothing! Apparently he was right, since he did such a good job of embalming her. The coroner said samples were totally contaminated. They could find nothing wrong with her physically.
The undertaker called her doctor and said she appeared to have died from natural causes and he said he would sign the death certificate! Without examining the body??
Now for the Oxycontin part!
The decedent had been on the drug for quite some time and was suffering from reactions from the drug but I imagine because of her developed dependency on it, she didn't complain.
We figured she was having reactions because she would call us sometimes and would slur her speech and on several occasions told us of what she called, having seizures. She said there had been occasions when her husband would come home and find her unconscious on the floor and turned blue! He never called anyone to help her! We became concerned for her and called her doctor to let him know what was happening to her. He said she was over medicated! This was about one year before her death!
We assumed he would intervene and get her under control or find something else for her restless leg syndrome because to me that stuff was going to kill her someday! She became angry that we called the doctor! I blame that on her addiction!
Apparently the doctor had ignored our information and must have increased her medication because the coroner was supprised at how much she was taking! He said something like 80mg, three times a day! I guess she was also prescribed muscle relaxers as well!
Now! Soon after her death, her husband moves in with another woman and we have learned there was sizable life insurance policies that were about to expire! I wonder how long that had been going on!
The duputy coroner who was working on this case has told us of his frustration of how this case was being handled by the police dept. When we asked the investigators what they were doing, they said they were waiting on the toxicology findings! They never even went into the home for 13 days and that was only to secure any unused narcotics.
The coroner said because of the tainted samples, he could not determine how she died nor in what manor but said she did have what appeared to be oxycontin in her stomach!
I wonder if the doctor was sweating bb's when the undertaker called him and told him about her death?
Because of the way everyone is connected here by friendship, It smells mighty rotten to us and we're finding that there is nothing that we can do.
Only the husband can and his "Scott Peterson" type behavior and insurance windfall doesn't smell any better!
