Regulations
There is sometimes a reckoning point when an issue in an industry becomes so clear that everybody recognizes it and a high profile newspaper investigates it to make the public aware. That happened this weekend when the Denver Post published this article on what has been going on in Colorado in the last year. We…
Adams County Coroner James Keller has came up with a controversial policy concerning the payments for indigent services in his county. You can read about the situation from NBCChicago.com here. The story relates how Coroner Keller has the family sign over the rights for the deceased to his office. He then cremates the deceased and…
An article in the Daily Times of Maryville, Tennessee, that you can read here announced that the Smith Funeral and Cremation Service has successfully applied for, and been approved, to add a crematory in their existing funeral home inside the city limits of Maryville. Owners Jason Chambers and C. Lynn Gibson indicated that the cremation…
Testimony continued in the Gulfport, Mississippi, trial where six black-owned funeral homes have contended that Harrison County and its coroner, Gary Hargraves, have discriminated against them by sending deceased bodies in greater numbers to the white-owned funeral homes in the county. In testimony yesterday, which is summed up by the Associated Press here, Harrison County…
An article appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune that you can read here that pertained specifically to the city of Rosemount, Minnesota, but dealt with the Minneapolis-St. Paul metroplex in general and the practice of local police departments of escorting funeral corteges from the place of service to the cemetery for interment. The article explained that…
In a unique situation the State of West Virginia has no members currently sitting on the Board of Funeral Service Examiners. According to an article that you can read here in the West Virginia Gazette Mail, the state legislature was planning on having a bill passed that would have transferred the board’s duties and…
Reuters has reported in a report that you can read here that the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home of Montrose, Colorado, and its associated business, Donor Services, remains under investigation by the FBI. In addition, a lawsuit has been filed by Shirley Hollenback and her daughter alleging that the remains she received purported to be the…
The New York Post reported over the weekend in an article that you can read here that the State Bureau of Funeral Directing has notified 94 New York morticians that they will lose their licenses if they don’t re-take their exam by June 30 or apply for an extension to December 31. In addition, according…
Last week we told you about a problem at the First Family Funeral Home of Spartanburg, South Carolina. That problem stemmed from the fact that a body that was to have been cremated three years earlier was found stored in a room at the mortuary just a couple of weeks ago. Today in an article…
