According to the National Association of Medical Examiners about 20 percent of all death certificates are signed by a coroner or a medical examiner. Since autopsy rates have plummeted in hospitals ...

Doing away with that Commission would also impact the money collected through state death certificates. Voss' bill would put that money into the control of a professional coroner’s association ...

Dr. David Kennedy, Mahoning County coroner, signed the death certificate, which contained a narrative indicating that the coroner’s office was called to the 47 E. Federal Realty Tower at 11:09 p ...

McCroskey was alive when officers offered him breakfast at 5:45 a.m., the narrative with McCroskey’s death certificate states. The coroner’s investigator stated that McCroskey had abrasions ...