A CHP officer thought a stroke victim was on drugs. Years later, his family gets permission to sue

A CHP officer thought a stroke victim was on drugs. Years later, his family gets permission to sue

In summary A family can sue the California Highway Patrol over an incident in which an officer missed the signs of an accident victim’s stroke and arrested him. Six years ago, a federal judge decided that a California Highway Patrol officer was protected from a civil lawsuit filed by the estate of a man involved in a one-car accident on a Costa Mesa freeway on-ramp.  The Highway Patrol officer, Samantha Diaz-Durazo, did not call an ambulance. In…

The man who had suffered a stroke was taken by ambulance to a hospital that was not equipped to provide such care. By the time he was transferred, it was too late.