"Delayed death" is an unusual type of case where the immediate cause of death may actually be from natural disease. However, injury may have occurred days, weeks, months or even years before death, and is responsible for initiating the sequence of medical conditions or events leading to death. This would be considered a coroner's case and is therefore reportable. The most common examples of this type of case are past traffic and industrial accidents with debilitating injury and long term care in a nursing home, and hip fractures of the elderly where there is a downward course of condition after the injury.
Any death where there is a doubt, question or suspicion
Not all reported cases fall into the above categories. After the investigation is completed, many will be returned to the jurisdiction or institution where the death certificate will be signed by the attending physician as a natural death.
Only the coroner can legally sign a death certificate of a person who has died as a direct or indirect result of any cause listed in the previously mentioned reportable death.
Any unattended death at home or in a public or outdoor space.