How do I obtain a coroners report on the death of a person.?

Question

Will there be a charge for obtainining a coroners report

Answer 1

Coroner's Report

A Coroner's Report is a public document available by written request. It contains identifying information, place of death, manner and cause of death, complete toxicology report and a summary of the significant findings of the autopsy if performed.



It depends on the state your from contact the coroner's office in Ohio a Coroner's report may be requested in writing by postal mail or fax. The report will be promptly mailed as soon as the case is completed. The approximate time for a case to be completed is 30 days. A Coroner's Report is only available when all the results of testing are available. There is no fee for an individual request.

Answer 2

Not if your in uk not sure about any where else

Answer 3

i think it gets sent direct to the G.P and yes i think there is a charge i had to get one some years ago so it may have changed.

Answer 4

Write to the Coroner's Court.

I do not know whether there will be a charge.

Answer 5

You don't say where you are in the world.  People reading this - please remember even though you think you are on Yahoo UK or Yahoo USA or any other Yahoo Portal, all English questions can be seen and read by anyone in the world who speaks English.  Some of those people are Americans, some are Australian, some, like myself are British, and there are plenty of other countries represented as well.  Questions like this are very unique to the country concerned, for as we all know, laws and customs vary depending on where you are in the world.  

I'm going to give an answer for England & Wales because that's where I am in the world.  Notice that I don't include Scotland in that list, because Scottish laws are different to English ones  - they don't use the term coronor, it is a procurator fiscal.

The news is not good.  For one thing, all records from within the last 75 years are closed to general public access - period.  Also, it was never a legal requirement for these things to be kept, so a great deal of 19th and early 20th century inquest reports were just simply destroyed as no longer being required just to save on storage space.  Every time I have attempted to find a coroner's inquest report I have received a negative response from the local County Record Office to my query.  The records in many cases just aren't there.  All that is there is what was reported in the local newspapers at the time, and I have always been advised to go down this route in trying to find out anything at all about what went on at an inquest.

The only exceptions (and I am not sure on this point) would be for a bone-fide accredited journalist writing an article.  At which point, presumably, they should be able to get access to say the records of Princess Dianas inquest as being something that is very much in the public interest - though they'd probably have to apply through the Freedom of Information Act to get access to those papers.  Whether ordinary people can apply for coroners reports on "ordinary" inquests under the Freedom of Information Act I'm really not sure.  A lot of places still don't know what the law is and how to implement it.  Some libraries will let me copy pages of old electoral rolls no questions asked, while some refuse - each placing a different interpratation on the "Data Protection Act".  I was once in all seriousness offered an appointment for 1st January 2064 to look at the school records from the 1920s for my gt grandma.  The whole system is a bit of a mess in my opinion, and to be honest, I really don't rate your chances.  It all depends where and when you are looking for.  Some areas have better survival rates than others, but if this was anywhere in the last hundred years or so, you will have a very hard time of it indeed to get anywhere.

Search out the newspaper reports.  Find the name of the local rag that covered the area back then, and approach the nearest large library about what newspapers they hold on microfilm.