Joan Rivers Cause of Death: Complications Due To Surgery

The New York Medical Examiner's Office has released the cause of death for Joan Rivers.

Statement from spokesperson Julie Bolcer:

OCME [Office of the Chief Medical Examiner] has completed its investigation. The cause of Ms. Rivers’ death is anoxic encephalopathy due to hypoxic arrest during laryngoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with propofol sedation for evaluation of voice changes and gastroesophageal reflux disease. The manner of death is therapeutic complication. The classification of a death as a therapeutic complication means that the death resulted from a predictable complication of medical therapy.

And there you have it. Melissa Rivers should be filing a lawsuit soon I hope. Can she actually sue? Is there a lawyer in the house?

H/T: THR