Nash & Associates White Paper:
"Having Trouble Getting A Hospital or Physician to Release An Autopsy Report?"

Families are often overwhelmed and deeply grieved by the death of a loved one. They want to understand what factors directly caused the death as part of their grieving process. Perhaps they also want to learn how to protect other family members from the same outcome. Sometimes the family questions whether a medical mistake or missed diagnosis was involved in the death.

If your loved one died suddenly, the cause of death uncertain, and/or was not under the care of a physician, most states require the hospital contact the Medical Examiners Office (MEO) to perform the autopsy.

However, if the death did not meet criteria for an MEO autopsy as defined by your state's laws, the hospital may still request permission from the family to perform the autopsy. This is especially true if they feel the family and/or medical community would benefit in some way from the knowing results.

The physician will request your signed permission to perform various autopsy procedures. An autopsy can be a simple anatomical evaluation, or it can be a complex analysis of body fluids, organs and tissues. Together with the physician, you will decide what level of autopsy is required to answer the questions you both may have.

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