In a case against Robert Hopper, their former lawyer, whom they had retained to defend them against a wrongful death claim. Judge Edward Wahl of Hennepin County determined that.
The bereaved parents ‘would have been victorious in the underlying wrongful death lawsuit’ they intended to file if it weren’t for Hopper’s professional negligence.
The city of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, the Minneapolis Police Department, the Minneapolis Fire Department, and HCMC Ambulance Services were among the defendants named.
In their first complaint, which claimed a long list of mistakes were made while attempting to save Jake’s life. “So many entities wronged us in this endeavor,” Kristi told the Star Tribune.
The critical choice to proclaim Jake “obviously dead” before his heart stopped on the night their son passed away resulted in paramedics never using the standard rescue techniques.
Jake was never sent to the hospital, and an expert study determined that he passed away at the morgue after his corpse was kept in the cold for hours.
