Melissa Rivers, the daughter of deceased comedian Joan Rivers, has filed a lawsuit against Yorkville Endoscopy, the New York clinic where her mother stopped breathing while undergoing a medical procedure, the Associated Press reports.
The elder Rivers died in September after undergoing a throat procedure at the clinic. The medical examiner later determined that she had stopped breathing during the procedure and suffered fatal brain damage resulting from a lack of oxygen. She was 81.
Rivers’ death was ruled a “predictable complication of medical therapy,” the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office later determine.
“OCME has completed its investigation.