Legal Opinion
Rakow v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided December 10, 2007No. Claim No. 107828Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Diane L. Fitzpatrick, J.
*905This claim is for damages as a result of an alleged unauthorized autopsy on claimant’s father, Wilfred W Westerfeld. There are a few factual discrepancies in the testimony and evidence presented.
Dr. Westerfeld taught for more than 30 years and was chairman of the Bio-Chemistry Department at SUNY Upstate Medical University before he retired in 1978. His wife predeceased him 10 years earlier on the same day, September 10, 1992. They had five children: claimant, the eldest, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland; Margaret Davies, who lives in the…
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