Overview
- California’s Second District Court of Appeal reinstated the Arroyo family’s lawsuit against White Memorial Medical Center.
- The court found the plaintiffs had no reason to suspect Maria de Jesus Arroyo was alive when she was placed in the hospital morgue.
- Mortuary workers reported finding her face down in a half‑unzipped body bag with a broken nose and facial bruising several days after the pronouncement.
- A pathologist hired by the family, Dr. William Manion, concluded she had been frozen alive and injured herself while trying to escape.
- White Memorial denies wrongdoing, says proper procedures were followed, and the case now returns to the trial court for further proceedings.