Family awarded $50,000 after Orleans coroner failed to identify loved one in timely manner

An appellate court has quintupled damages awarded to a New Orleans family who accused the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office of not identifying their loved one in a timely manner.

WDSU Investigates reported on the death of Benjamin Pfantz back in May.

Pfantz’s parents alleged in a lawsuit that although his body was sent to the morgue, staff denied that his body was there…

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