Regulations
About ten days ago we told you that Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home and Cremation in Jordan, Minnesota, was pursuing the idea of placing an alkaline hydrolysis unit in their business so that client families have a choice between flame cremation and alkaline hydrolysis – sometimes known as water or green cremation. According to this article, the…
There is a lot of talk about the United States Supreme Court this week. The talk ramps up during the first week of October every year because that is when the court goes back into session hearing cases after its summer recess. Here is an article from the Washington Post pertaining to the issues coming…
According to an article published yesterday from Radio Iowa that you can read here, the Iowa attorney general is going to court asking that the Iowa Insurance Division be allowed to step in and try to recoup money from two funeral homes under investigation. According to a statement in the article, Dennis Britson, of the…
I came across a really good consumer information article the other day about the State of Oregon and its Mortuary and Cemetery Board. The point of the article was an information topic on how the funeral home, cremation, and cemetery industry is regulated in that state. You can read the article here. As my headline…
This article from the Sydney Morning Herald relates to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) that, according to that article, commenced action last week against funeral and accident insurance company Select AFSL and its director, Russell Howden. The article mentions that the company faces a lawsuit from Australia’s corporate regulator over what they call…
Today I will be enjoying one of my favorite days of the year. . . . Convocation Day at the University of Minnesota. It is the day we welcome the new students to the University of Minnesota and as one of the 12 people appointed by the State Legislature to serve on the governing board…
A couple of things came to my attention last week that made me again think about the staffing issue facing funeral homes across the country. While I am no longer on the front lines in looking for licensed staff, I do hear from my colleagues that hiring and retaining professional funeral home licensed staff is…
What to do with a funeral home that has “become outdated and closed due to a drop in demand?” That is the question that seems to have an answer from most of us and, in particular, the owner in this case Service Corporation International (SCI). I’m guessing that most of us would put the building…
