SCI Settles Neptune Society Lawsuit in Florida
Service Corporation International (SCI) has settled a federal class-action suit against its Neptune Society cremation division, agreeing to pay up to $209 million in full refunds of all...
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Gargantuan Gates & More COVID Conspiracies | 4M #48
Welcome to the forty-eighth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #48, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
SCI Acquires 166-Year-Old Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service
Service Corporation International, better known in deathcare as SCI, has acquired Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service, one of America’s oldest family-owned firms. Schoedinger has been a fixture in...
Death Stocks Are Dying: Is Cremation the Only Culprit?
You’ve all heard the cliches — we’re all going to die, death and taxes are the only certainties, etc. It’s this line of thinking that recently prompted a...
24,168 SCI Customers Were Notified of Possible Personal Data Loss. This is How it Happened…
Last week, Service Corporation International notified 24,168 customers from its Cremation Society of Pennsylvania branch after their information was lost in the mail. Pennlive reports that, "While officials do not believe...
SCI Firm Settles for $12MM in Lost Cremains Case After Family Takes 4 Years to Claim Them
A woman in Mobile, Alabama was awarded a $12 million settlement after a funeral home lost her mother’s cremated remains. A civil jury found Pine Crest Funeral Home...
SCI and Chicago Funeral Directors Headed to Federal Mediation
Funeral industry giant Service Corporation International (NYSE: SCI) has accepted Teamsters Local 727's offer to enter federal mediation as the union attempts to reach an agreement on a...