Medical Examiner’s Accreditation An Issue In Budget Impasse

By DAVE COLLINSAssociated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Connecticut’s budget impasse is putting the state medical examiner’s office at risk for losing national accreditation.
The office has until Wednesday to show the National Association of Medical Examiners that it has addressed a short-staffing problem, or it could lose accreditation completely. The office was downgraded to partial accreditation earlier this year.
The agency’s seven forensic patholog