June 2015 Medical Examiner Reporting Guidelines
All forms of criminal violence or from an unlawful act or criminal neglect
All accidents (motor vehicle, industrial, home, public place, etc.)
All suicides
All deaths that are caused or contributed to by drug and/or chemical overdose or poisoning
Sudden death of a person in apparent good health (without significant past medical history associated with sudden death, such as coronary artery disease, etc.)
Deaths of all persons in legal detention, jails or police custody. This category also includes any prisoner who is a patient in a hospital, regardless of the duration of hospital confinement.
Deaths which occur during diagnostic or therapeutic procedures or from complications of such procedures
Deaths due to disease, injury or toxic agent resulting from employment
Deaths which occur in any suspicious or unusual manner.
