Regulations
Yesterday I was active in our Minnesota Funeral Director’s Association (MFDA) Fall Continuing Education meetings. The MFDA puts these on over about 10 days in the fall in different locations in an effort to tell all death care professionals what is going on in the industry. It is always a great source to go to,…
The State of West Virginia Health and Human Resources Department requires all suspected drug overdose deaths to be transported to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office at the state morgue, autopsied, and a toxicology report must be made in an attempt to pinpoint what exactly caused the death. After this is done the State then has…
Members of the West Virginia’s Performance Evaluation and Research Division (PERD) were called on to evaluate why funeral director Chad Harding was allowed to maintain his license while being investigated and was found to have violated the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act and the West Virginia Preneed Funeral Contracts Act along with committing…
On Sunday my wife and I dropped off our youngest child for his Freshman year of college at a school about 100 miles away from us. Those of you that have been through this procedure know what it is like. He is not entering the death care profession and I am okay with that. There…
As has become our custom we use Monday mornings for an overview of some of the stories we have seen concerning the death care industry over the last week. Today is no exception and we have linkable articles on topics ranging from a funeral home that was closed down to a Japanese company’s idea to…
