Funeral Director Daily
We have talked about it here before — how the American death care business is changing. It all has to do with the changing culture of the American populous. Not much has changed in what is accepted in America at the time of death — for the past forty years we have accepted burial, funerals,…
U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has dismissed a class action lawsuit against StoneMor Partners L.P. according to an article in the Delaware County Times. In this lawsuit, lead plaintiffs Judson Anderson was trying to show that investors were misled and/or materially harmed by statements StoneMor made between March…
Yesterday I read of two cases where funeral homes faced examiners because of problems at their mortuaries and in both cases both funeral homes have had their licenses revoked for a period of time from the respective examining boards. While the funeral homes may have the chance to plead their case and appeal, much of…
After a couple months of testing posts, with a small audience of critics, to see if I liked doing this I turned the site over to Twitter, Facebook, and Google to try to reach new readers. Since then, we have been growing in readership organically at about 1.5 – 2% daily. Thanks for joining up.…
A net operating loss of $76.3 million was reported by global conglomerate Assurant yesterday. While two – Global Lifestyle and Global Preneed – of their three operating units posted profits, they were far outweighed by the losses in the Global Housing segment to produce the loss. The Global Housing unit loss of $110.3 million was…
The United States Department of Labor published rates on the rising cost of death as their October 31 piece in the Economics Daily platform. From here you can see the full article with a graph which indicates some of the following: From December 1986 to September 2017 funeral expenses rose 227.1% In that same time…
In the world of the Millennials we should have expected this to come sooner or later. On October 18, 2017, a video game where you play as a mortician was introduced to the general public. Developed by Laundry Bear Games, the game is A Mortician’s Tale and you can read all about it and even see…
Last Friday, October 27, StoneMor Partners L.P., finally reported its earnings from the 1st Quarter of 2017 which ended on March 31, 2017. As reported earlier the Partnership is continuing to work on its delayed filing of periodic reports with the SEC. You can read the full report of last Friday from StoneMor here. Here…
For the last century most funeral homes have tried to be all things to all people. Full service funeral homes have offered funeral services, embalming, cremation, and any other type of service that a client family asked for and usually were able to serve that family through their traditional funeral home building. Originally there were…
