6th Circuit Reverses Exclusion Of Heat Stroke Diagnosis In Man’s Death

Mealey's (July 31, 2017, 12:56 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — Relatives of a man who died in his 93-degree apartment who sued a utility company for wrongful death for denying the man utility services due to lack of a photo ID can present testimony from a medical expert that the man died from “probable heat stroke,” a divided Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled July 27 (Dorothy Mae Johnson, et al. v. Memphis Light Gas & Water Division, No. 16-6143, 6th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 13765)....