Title: (Optional) Describe the legal necessity of establishing postmortem interval (PMI).
Course: Forensic Technology (15055) > Section: Investigating Medicolegal Death

Description should include

- a definition of PMI—the approximate elapsed time since death
- an explanation of how short- and long-term PMIs are estimated
- the relevance of PMIs to insurance issues.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How is the postmortem interval established?
- What changes occur in a body to help determine PMI?
- Why is PMI important in the investigation of crimes?
- Why are insects important in determining PMI?
- Why do insurers care about time since death?