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New Mexico Court Rules Against Family Given Brain In Bag

A family can’t bring damage claims in New Mexico against an out-of-state funeral home that placed a relative’s brain in a casket with an embalmed body shipped to New Mexico, the state Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The New Mexico …

New Mexico Widow Sues Utah Crematory, Claims Ashes Mix-Up

A New Mexico widow whose husband was killed in a 2009 plane crash is suing a Utah crematory and funeral home after she says they gave her the wrong person’s ashes. Marilynn Flynn of Alamogordo has filed a federal lawsuit …

Alabama Funeral Home to Pay $1 Million for Body Mixup

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 …