Judge rules for Taser in cause-of-death decisions
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Taser International has fired a warning shot at medical examiners across the country.
The Scottsdale-based stun gun manufacturer increasingly is targeting state and county medical examiners with lawsuits and lobbying efforts to reverse and prevent medical rulings that Tasers contributed to someone’s death.
That effort on Friday helped lead an Ohio judge’s order to remove Taser’s name from three Summit County Medical Examiner autopsies that had ruled the stun gun contributed to three men’s deaths.
What a great country the USA is…. where else can a corporation get a lawsuit about torture to go their way, and dictate medical procedures….
Next up, the gun manufacturers will start filing suits to have the cause of death in shootings be something that couldn’t have been caused by their products. “Yes, your honour, the small, high velocity piece of lead did pierce his heart, but it was actually a heart attack and bleeding that killed him. Our product, which merely launched the small piece of lead, had nothing to do with it at all. The report should read ‘died of natural causes.’”