TAMPA, Fla. — Hulk Hogan’s family has hired a law firm to investigate whether the hospitals and doctors that treated the famed pro wrestler before his July 24 death in Clearwater committed medical malpractice.

Through their attorneys, Hogan’s son, Nicholas Bollea, and Hogan’s wife, Melanie Sky Daily Bollea, petitioned the circuit court in Pinellas County to extend the window of time in which a malpractice lawsuit could be filed.

Hogan’s family has not filed a malpractice lawsuit, and none of the parties are currently accused of wrongdoing, but the filing indicates that Hogan’s estate is exploring that option.

The filing names Morton Plant Hospital, Tampa General Hospital, doctors Thomas Roush and Guilherme H. Oliveira and “any and all other applicable health care providers” for Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea.

Roush is an orthopedic surgeon with a practice, Roush Spine, based in Lake Worth. Oliveira, an executive with Tampa General, is listed on the hospital’s website as an expert in heart failure and transplantation cardiology.

If granted, the routine request would extend the statute of limitations to file a wrongful death claim an additional 90 days beyond the normal two years.

Attorneys representing the Bollea estate from the firm Ratzan Weissman & Boldt declined to comment. Spokespersons for Tampa General, Morton Plant and Roush also declined.

Meanwhile, a Clearwater Police Department spokesperson said the police investigation into Hogan’s death remains open and ongoing after more than two months. In August the agency said in a statement that the “unique nature of this case has required us to interview multiple witnesses and seek medical records from a variety of providers.”

It’s unclear what police are still probing. The department previously said the death was not suspicious.

A Pinellas-Pasco County Medical Examiner’s report in July listed Hogan’s cause of death as myocardial infarction (more commonly known as a heart attack), as a consequence of atrial fibrillation (an irregular heart rhythm) and leukemia. That cause of death was determined by Hogan’s doctor, an investigator from the medical examiner’s office said at the time.

The medical examiner’s office did not perform an autopsy, the investigator said then, because the death was not suspicious.

Before he died, Sky Daily Bollea wrote in a post that her husband had undergone “a major four-level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF), which is an intense surgery with a long and layered healing process.”

Hogan collapsed on July 24 at his Clearwater Beach home where he was recovering from surgery. He’d been released from the hospital a day before his death.

Under Florida law, filing a medical malpractice lawsuit requires an investigation involving another, uninvolved doctor of the same specialty determining that the doctor at issue deviated from the normal standard of care.

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