Sims-Hearn v. Office of the Medical Examiner

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• holding that, under the public duty rule, the office of the medical examiner did not owe a duty of care to individual citizens to perform duties such as autopsies
• the medical examiner’s office did not owe a duty to the mother of the deceased for alleged negligence in performing the autopsy

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