The family of Timesha Beauchamp, a 20-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, is set to receive a $3.25 million settlement. This follows an incident in August 2020 where she was mistakenly pronounced dead. An emergency room doctor incorrectly declared the woman dead over the phone while she was at her home in Southfield, Michigan.
However, Beauchamp was discovered alive and breathing, with her eyes open, by a funeral home worker preparing to embalm the body upon the body’s arrival.
“She couldn’t speak for herself. She laid in a body bag a lot, and couldn’t even tell nobody,” Erica Lattimore, Beauchamp’s mother, recounted to WDIV-TV last year, during the five-year anniversary of her daughter’s death…