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The Office of the Chief Coroner ( OCC) for Ontario provides death investigations and inquests to ensure that no death will be overlooked, concealed or ignored. The findings are used to generate recommendations to help improve public safety and prevent deaths in similar circumstances.
Jun 3, 2024 · The BC Coroners Service investigates all unnatural, sudden and unexpected, unexplained or unattended deaths in British Columbia. It makes recommendations to improve public safety and prevent death in similar circumstances. For each death, a coroner will determine: The identity of the deceased.
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Reportable deaths. Certain types of deaths must be reported to a coroner, such as: deaths that occur suddenly and unexpectedly. deaths at a construction or mining site. deaths while in police custody or while a person is incarcerated in a correctional facility.
Under the authority of the chief coroner, the coroner intervenes systematically in the following situations: when a death occurs in violent (accident, suicide, homicide) or obscure circumstances, or as a result of negligence; when the cause of death is unknown; when the deceased’s identity is unknown; when the body of a person who died ...
Jun 14, 2023 · Ontario's coroners have now filed a constitutional challenge to be able to unionize — doctors are not allowed by law to do so — and voted 96 per cent in favour of joining the Ontario Public...
Dec 11, 2019 · Ontario's Office of the Chief Coroner is reviewing 132 cases in which some of the province's top-billing coroners investigated the death of a person they'd treated within five years of their...
Coroners, also known as medical examiners, play an important role in public safety. While physicians may be familiar with their obligation to report certain deaths to coroners, many may not know how best to respond to a coroner's request for information.
