Texas Funeral Home Negligence Lawyers

For various reasons – including neglect, greed, deception, incompetence, and sexual perversion – funeral homes sometimes fail to provide the level of care that’s to be expected. They should be held accountable for actions such as:

• Mishandling or dropping a body
• Stacking bodies on top of one another
• Leaving bodies unattended for an extended period of time
• Improperly embalming a body
• Placing multiple bodies in a casket
• Placing the wrong body in the coffin
• Burying a body in the wrong plot
• Mixing or blending ashes from multiple corpses
• Robbing a body
• Sexually abusing a corpse
• Substituting a cheaper casket without approval
• Selling a damaged casket
• Lying about prices and the availability of coffins
• Harvesting organs for resale
• Using an unlicensed embalmer

Texas law allows for certain individuals – including surviving children, spouses, and parents – to recover damages in funeral home negligence lawsuits. To do so, negligence must be proven. This generally requires demonstrating the following:

• The funeral home owed a duty of care to treat your loved one’s remains respectfully and responsibly
• They breached their legal obligation to you
• Their failure directly caused you harm
• You suffered losses as a result

The damages awarded in funeral home negligence lawsuits vary, depending on the specific losses incurred by the victim. However, plaintiffs in these lawsuits are often awarded damages including:

• Funeral Expenses
• Emotional Distress
• Loss of life’s enjoyment
• Punitive damages (intended to punish the funeral home and dissuade similar behavior in the future)

If you believe a funeral home neglected, abused, or otherwise mistreated your loved one’s remains, you have the right to hold them accountable.

Schedule a free, no-risk case evaluation with one of our Texas attorneys. It costs nothing to hire us, and we get paid only if we successfully resolve your case. Contact us today.