Funeral Director Daily
It was announced earlier this week that an Alabama jury has awarded damages of $12 million to a family whose cremated remains were lost by a funeral home. You can read coverage from Alabama.com here and the Associated Press here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]
Read MoreWe saw a couple news items that were fairly unique as to their content and thought that we would bring our readers both of them today with very little commentary on our part. The first item that we found concerned a funeral home in Nova Scotia, Canada, where the public service is warning against crematoriums…
Read MoreLast week Environment and Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis signed off paving the way for the first crematory to be installed in the country of Greece. According to Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis this “will allow Greece to fulfill its commitment for upholding citizens’ rudimentary rights”. You can read more of this article here. According to the…
Read MoreAustralian public company funeral services provider InvoCare announced over the weekend that they successfully completed an underwritten institutional placement of A $65 million (about $US 46 million). You can read about and see a news clip from the Australia Finance News Network here. InvoCare says that the capital raise will be applied to their strategic…
Read MoreLast October we brought you a story about an Austin, Texas, funeral home where the Texas Department of Banking (TDB) had opened an investigation. You can read about that story concerning the Austin-Peel and Son Funeral Home here. The investigation was opened because the TDB had reason to believe that the funeral home had illegally…
Read MoreI saw an article earlier this week from Seeking Alpha that you can read here that retailer Nordstrom’s sales increased year over year for the year 2018 by 2.3%. What really hit me about the number though was as I read farther into the article I found out that Nordstrom’s brick and mortar stores suffered…
Read MoreEvery so often someone asks me what I think of the funeral/cremation/cemetery companies that are in the public ownership realm. So, today I will start giving you my opinions of what I think each is trying to, or should try to accomplish. Each in this series of write ups will be my day to be…
Read MoreThe common held belief in the funeral and cremation services business is that people will always need death care professionals to execute the lawful disposition of the deceased. However, another trend that has been taking place over the past ten years is that a larger percentage of the client families that you serve will be…
Read MoreIn the aftermath of the devastating tornado that hit the southeast portion of the United States, the Alabama Mortuary Response Team has been called into action. According to this article from the Cullman Times, at least 23 individuals have died as a result of the twister. The tornado struck Sunday and according to the article…
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