- Exhumation autopsy
- 2nd autopsy
- Expert witness
The Michigan Institute of Forensic Science & Medicine (MIFSM) is staffed by physicians who are certified by the American Board of Pathology in both Anatomic and Forensic Pathology. In addition to performing hundreds of postmortem examinations each year, including medicolegal, private, and hospital-requested autopsies, MIFSM also routinely provide expert medicolegal consultation services. These may concern a wide array of cases, including performing second autopsies and exhumation autopsies, evaluating non-lethal injuries, and reviewing medical records and autopsy reports prepared by other physicians.
Requests for expert witness consultation services may be accepted from other physicians, family members of the deceased, attorneys, insurance companies, and law enforcement agencies from across the country. Consultation services are tailored to each situation, and as such may range from making a simple explanatory phone call to offering complex expert witness testimony in both civil and criminal cases.