Legislative Updates

While the video contains helpful information about the major requirements of the Funeral Rule, it also contains incorrect information regarding...

The Funeral Rule establishes some basic requirements that apply to all funeral providers. Who’s considered a funeral provider? Any business...

Benedictine monks may keep selling plain, low-cost caskets from their monastery outside New Orleans, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday,...

The Long Beach City Council banned new funeral homes, mortuaries and crematoriums for a 9-month period after residents raised concerns...

A con-man targets veterans who prepaid for their funeral expenses. He sold them caskets, but ultimately failed to deliver them...

As reported in the January 17, 2013, edition of Memorial Business Journal, one aspect of the settlement of a seven-year...

In what's believed to be the first case of its kind, the same-sex spouse of a member of the military...

What if the bereaved feel entitled to a deeper closure, specifically, by seeking answers from or access to a dead...

The FTC Staff recently posted on the FTC website four Funeral Rule Advisory Opinions. Three of the opinions are new,...

Many people choose to have their grave plot reserved and headstone in place long before they die. No problem. Unless...