Family sues hospital claiming Maria de Jesus Arroyo KD 6 Shoes Sale Online died in morgue freezer after wrongly being declared dead

Family sues hospital claiming Maria de Jesus Arroyo died in morgue freezer after wrongly being declared dead

The Los Angeles Times reported.

Mrs Arroyo was pronounced dead and placed in a freezer at the White Memorial Medical Centre in Boyle Heights, California after suffering a heart attack.

But when morticians received her body three days later they found her lying face down with a broken nose and cuts to her face, according to court documents. Her injuries were allegedly so bad that they could not be covered with make-up.

Mrs Arroyo husband and eight children had originally sued the hospital for mishandling her body, but later learned she may have been alive The Times reported.

During the initial litigation a pathologist concluded that Mrs Arroyo injuries happened while she was still alive, and it was likely she woke up inside the freezer and her face and turned herself face down as she struggled unsuccessfully to escape her frozen tomb initial lawsuit was withdrawn and a second case was filed alleging the hospital had mistakenly declared Mrs Arroyo dead. A Los Angeles judge threw out that second lawsuit, ruling a one-year statute of limitations had past KD 6 Shoes Sale Online.

But the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday overturned that decision, saying the family could not have known of the possibility Mrs Arroyo was placed in the freezer alive until they had the pathologist testimony Nike KD 7 For Sale.

had absolutely no reason to suspect that the decedent was alive rather than dead when placed in the Hospital morgue and when the disfiguring injuries occurred, the justices wrote. Nike Kobe 9 Elite Officially Unveiled