Texas Funeral Home Negligence Lawyers

Was Your Late Loved One’s Body Mishandled?

When your loved one passes away and is taken to a funeral home for final rites and preparations, you should be able to expect that the funeral home or crematory will show your loved one’s body respect and professional care. If something goes wrong and your loved one’s body is damaged or disrespected, it will be devastating to your entire family. If the mistake should have been reasonably avoided, you might have the grounds to use legal action against the funeral home.

Law Offices Of Vic Feazell, P.C. is a trusted name across Texas for complex claims and lawsuits, including funeral home negligence cases. Our attorneys combine professionalism and genuine compassion into reliable representation that always puts your best interests first. We know that you are going through one of the most difficult times of your life. Allow us to take some of the stress away by handling your funeral negligence claim on your behalf.

Call (254) 938-6885 to request a free case consultation.

Types of Funeral Home Negligence

Funeral home negligence occurs when a funeral home or crematory fails to handle a deceased person’s body with the care and respect owed to it. Although the person is no longer alive, they should still be treated with dignity, and no undue harm should come to the body, or their surviving loved ones will suffer the emotional aftermath.

Different types of funeral home negligence include: 

• Failing to embalm properly, leading to poor body preservation or damage.
• Failing to dress the body for presentation.
• Mishandling the body in a way that leads to damage or disrespect.
• Burying or cremating the wrong body.
• Cremating or burying the body without consent or direction through a will.
• Using the wrong gravesite or plot to inter the body.
• Providing the wrong body at the service.
• Failing to follow the last rites and wishes as directed.
• Employing unqualified staff who should not have been allowed to work with the body.
• Sexually abusing the body.
• Intentionally causing physical harm to the body.

Compensation in a Funeral Home Negligence Case

Money cannot undo the trauma caused by funeral home negligence that damaged or disrespected the body of your deceased loved one. However, through a claim against the funeral home that pursues compensation for wrongdoing, you may be able to feel a sense of justice that leads to closure. You and your loved ones deserve a chance to move forward after this unacceptable tragedy, and our funeral home negligence attorneys would like to help make that happen.

Different types of compensation that could be available through a claim include:

• Economic: Costs related to the handling, processing, and burial or cremation of your loved one.
• Non-economic: Costs related to your emotional pain and mental traumatization caused by the funeral home’s negligence.
• Punitive: Costs used to punish the liable party for egregious negligence or intentional wrongdoing; courts rarely approve punitive damages, so they might not apply to your case.

Bringing a Claim Against a Negligent Funeral Home

You have enough to deal with after a funeral home disrespected the remains of a loved one. Don’t add legal complications on top of everything. Instead, let our Texas funeral home negligence attorneys handle every step of your case, from start to finish.

A typical funeral home negligence case will include these steps:

1. Determining if negligence occurred and if that justifies legal action against the funeral home.
2. Gathering evidence of the negligence and the emotional trauma it has caused your family.
3. Preparing your claim and filing it with the right court, depending on where the negligence occurred or where you live.
4. Serving the funeral home an official notice of the lawsuit and responding to any inquiries they have about it.
5. Attempting to negotiate a settlement that would fairly compensate you and your family. (Additional negotiation attempts may be made throughout the rest of the legal process.)
6. Entering the discovery process to exchange information and evidence about the act of funeral home negligence in question.
7. Going to trial to argue your case before the court if a fair settlement offer is not provided.

Let Our Lawyers Help – Call Today

Law Offices Of Vic Feazell, P.C. serves clients throughout central Texas who have been traumatized by funeral home negligence that damaged or disrespected the remains of a loved one. As a law firm that has been featured by major media groups for years, you know that you can trust us with your case. We are ready to stand up for you and your family during this trying time.

To ask for a no-cost case evaluation about funeral home negligence in Texas, call (254) 938-6885 now.