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FLORIDA: New lawsuit, more desecration allegations against cemetery giant SCI

WPTV TV/NewsChannel 5
West Palm Beach FL
April 6, 2012

Roughly a decade since cemetery giant Service Corporation International paid out roughly $120 million after being accused of misplacing bodies, smashing vaults and overselling plots at its graveyards near Palm Beach Gardens and Fort Lauderdale, it is facing similar allegations.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, lawyers who in the past have taken on the nation’s largest funeral service firm claim that operations at the Star of David cemetery in North Lauderdale are as gruesome as those that got the company in trouble with state regulators and spawned civil suits.

Read the full article and see video (0:25) at WPTV TV/NewsChannel 5

Thanks to the HVCC Mortuary Science Alumni & Student Assoc for alerting us to this article.

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