In our prior post (Missouri Seller Exams: Timely Deposits), we discussed the receipt and deposit records that funeral homes may be required to maintain. However, to demonstrate that they are complying with the preneed law’s deposit requirements, funeral homes will also be dependent upon the records generated by their funding source to confirm
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Missouri Seller Exams: Timely Deposits
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Missouri’s preneed funeral law imposes time requirements on funeral homes that accept consumer funds. For funeral homes using depository accounts to fund preneed contracts, the funeral home must deposit consumer funds with the bank within 10 days. Funeral homes using insurance to fund preneed contracts must remit the consumers funds to the insurance company within…
Missouri Seller Exams: Trustee Recordkeeping and Disbursements
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The clock is on for the second round of Missouri preneed audits financial examinations, and the Missouri Division of Professional Registration wants to avoid the slow start that plagued the process 5 years ago. Although the State Board has yet to approve the Division’s proposals for seller recordkeeping and the scope of the exams, exam…
Missouri Seller Records: The State Board Proposal
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At its March meetings, the State Board again received from the Division staff a rule proposal that would define the minimum records that a preneed seller would have to maintain. The first recordkeeping proposal was offered last July, but was never discussed. The recordkeeping proposal was subsequently included on the December agenda, but was only…
Missouri Preneed Seller Records: Trying to Get Everyone on a Similar Page
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As reported in several prior posts, the preneed examination process in Missouri has been a work in progress for the past five years. Funeral homes in that state have been selling preneed for more than 30 years without much oversight or recordkeeping guidelines. When the law was re-written in 2009 in response to the NPS…
Missouri’s Financial Examination Committee: What role?
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When the Missouri State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors meet this week, the role of the Board’s Financial Examination Committee will be discussed. As established, the Financial Examination Committee was intended to expedite the exam process. The initial Committee consisted of the Board’s public member and a former industry member who had previously acknowledged…
Missouri’s Next Round of Preneed Examinations: Drilling Deeper?
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When the Missouri State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors meets this week, their staff will be seeking input regarding the scope of the second round of preneed audits. Each preneed seller is to be audited at least once every five years, and the first round of audits was ‘concluded’ this year. Included on…
Missouri’s Exam Progress: Time for Changes?
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The Missouri State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors will meet in a few weeks, and the topic of fees may be on the agenda. The staff broached the fees topic at the spring meeting, but the matter was tabled for subsequent discussion. Fees and the preneed examination process go hand in hand, and…
Out of Left Field: Missouri’s insurance assignments
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Who can honestly say they saw this one coming?
On July 5, 2012, the Missouri State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors filed a complaint with the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission against a Missouri funeral home for alleged violations of Chapter 436, including several transactions that predate Senate Bill No. 1. So, three years after the …
The On-Site Audit: getting to know your business
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Posted in Exams/audits, Preneed
Here in the Midwest, the death care industry is just beginning to experience the increase in preneed reporting and oversight. Some funeral directors are already frustrated with the new requirements, and are biding the time to when they can vent towards the preneed regulator.
Over the past 4 years, state agencies in Illinois, Kansas and…