Beslin v. Charity Hospital of New Orleans

Linda Beslin and Barbara Beslin Perez sued Charity Hospital of New Orleans for *514emotional distress which they allegedly sustained because Charity failed to properly preserve the body of their mother, Rose Beslin, after she died at Charity. Charity’s negligence, plaintiffs claim, caused accelerated postmortem bodily changes which made it impossible to have relatives and friends view their mother’s body at an open casket wake.

The Trial Judge determined that the body was not kept properly refrigerated at Charity because the evidence showed that it had reached a stage of decomposition which “is…