October 23, 2023
A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories. The families that …
December 7, 2021
Funeral home directors in two Southern states have been accused of taking money from insurance policies and grieving families, but failing to return proceeds to the families and failing to cremate or ship remains, state insurance officials said. In North …
September 21, 2015
The operators of a Putnam County, West Virginia funeral home are being accused of filing false death claims to insurance companies on behalf of pre-need contract customers who were still alive. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a complaint Friday alleging …
January 6, 2012
The family of a British commodities trader who died while partying in Las Vegas will accept $350,000 to end a federal lawsuit stemming from the disappearance of the man’s internal organs after an autopsy and before his body was returned …
August 23, 2011
A Jefferson County jury has found a Bessemer funeral home and two of its employees negligent in the switching of identities of two women prior to family viewings in 2009 and awarded the families of the two women nearly $1 …