Overview
- Attorneys say a mid-September trial date was postponed at the last minute as Southfield paramedics press an immunity defense, pushing the civil case into the appellate courts.
- In 2020, Southfield crews pronounced 20-year-old Timesha Beauchamp dead at home; funeral-home staff later found her alive in a body bag, and she died nearly two months afterward.
- State authorities reported in September 2020 that a paramedic misled a physician by phone about Beauchamp’s condition and failed to recognize she was alive, findings central to the lawsuit.
- Plaintiffs’ lawyers Steven Hurbis and Jennifer Damico say defendants have recently acknowledged mistakes but continue to dispute full legal responsibility, while the city declines comment.
- Mother Erica Lattimore has resumed public advocacy, describing the toll of repeated delays and planning an Oct. 18 balloon release to mark five years since her daughter’s death.