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According to a recent story, a Maryland funeral home lost its license after an inspector found a pile of 40 bodies in body bags stacked 12 feet high in their garage waiting to be cremated. The bags were found to contain human remains strewn on the floor of the garage with visible leakage from the body bags, as well as a pungent odor. The owner of the funeral home is challenging a decision to have its license suspended. The funeral home is identified as Chambers Funeral Home and Cremations in Prince Georges County, Maryland. According to inspectors, the bodies were so ill kept that they became difficult to identify and the leakage from the body bags caused the writings containing identification to smear and become illegible. The website of the Chambers Funeral Home does not mention that it lost its license and the company continues to advertise dignified funeral services at a modest price.

As an experienced funeral home, cemetery, and cremation negligence lawyer, this morbid situation takes the cake. When one retains the services of a funeral home, it is expected that the deceased will be treated correctly and respectfully. The last thing the family needs is to be plunged into further sorrow due to such unethical behavior. The Pennsylvania funeral home abuse lawyers of Reiff and Bily have handled several cases on behalf of grief stricken families who were plunged even further into grief due to the unethical behavior of such funeral homes. Incidents such as this commonly occur throughout the United States with many occurring in Pennsylvania. When one pays hard earned dollars to a funeral home and a funeral home fails to do its job with dignity and respect, the families are entitled to recovery and the funeral abuse attorneys at Reiff and Bily will pursue these unethical businesses to make them pay for their negligence and wrongdoing. If you have been the victim of funeral home or cemetery abuse, please contact our office for a free consultation regarding your legal rights and options.

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According to a recent newspaper article published in Canada a funeral director delivered to a grieving daughter remains other than those that were supposed to be those of her mother. Instead, the grieving daughter, Ellen Johnson, received someone else’s remains and has no idea what happened to her mother’s body after she died. The funeral director was charged with 34 counts of fraud and 2 counts of negligence with respect to the proper care of human remains and indignities to human remains. According to news sources, the funeral director’s lawyer indicated that he will plead guilty to 38 charges.

Ellen Johnson, the daughter of her deceased mother, Jessie, was quoted as saying “This is a nightmare. First you find out the ashes aren’t yours and then you wonder what he did do and how he did he do it and how did he keep all these bodies all this time. Were they kept in a proper facility?” It turned out that the funeral director has been operating a funeral home without a license from between 2003 and 2005. The investigation revealed that a number of the funeral director’s clients were given ashes other than the remains of their loved ones.

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