July 2009 - The Illinois Cemetery and Funeral Home Association (ICFHA) strongly condemns the crimes committed at Burr Oak Cemetery. "What these employees did violates everything we stand...
Four people face felony charges after authorities discovered that hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold at a historic African-American cemetery near Chicago, Illinois, authorities said...
July 3, 2009 - A Falls Church funeral home that allegedly mishandled numerous bodies over the past year has denied wrongdoing. Its attorneys wrote to a Virginia regulatory...
Merrill Lynch & Co. has agreed to pay $18 million to end a State of Illinois investigation into its role in the erosion of a trust that was...
April 27, 2009 - Losses in a pre-need funeral trust fund once administered by the Illinois Funeral Directors Association don?t look like much compared to the collapse of...
April 16, 2009 - The family of an Army veteran has sued a Virginia funeral home, claiming the firm mishandled the man's body by leaving it in an...
April 8, 2009 - The family of a deceased U.S. Army veteran whose body was stored for months in a Falls Church funeral home's unrefrigerated garage is asking...
March 24, 2009 - Death is hard enough to deal with without the added insult of being taken advantage of by a funeral home. The Federal Trade Commission...
March 19, 2009 - The troubles for Illinois funeral homes continue to mount, as its trade group is involved in an insurance-coverage dispute related to problems with a...
March 14, 2009 - A Merrill Lynch financial adviser in Springfield has temporarily lost his state license, as Illinois regulators continue to investigate investment losses in a $300...