FILE - In this undated family photo provided by Erica Lattimore through Fieger Law shows her daughter, Timesha Beauchamp with her brother Steven Thompson in Southfield, Mich. A Michigan appeals court revived a lawsuit Thursday, June 27, 2024, against Detroit-area paramedics after Timesha had been declared dead then gasped for air with her eyes open when a body bag was unzipped at a funeral home.
Timesha Beauchamp, who had cerebral palsy, was struggling to breathe when her family called 911 in August 2020. Later that day, a funeral home unzipped the body bag and found Beauchamp had her eyes open. She was rushed to a hospital but died two months later. An attorney for the medical crew, Kali Henderson, acknowledged that it “sounds really bad” to say there’s no liability for the paramedics and emergency medical technicians.Michigan woman to stand trial in crash that killed young brother and sister at birthday party“Where do we have the facts that anything they could have done would have changed her condition?” Henderson told the appeals court on June 12.