In the new era of Zoom meetings, the Federal Trade Commission is holding a “public workshop” on September 7th to get further input on Funeral Rule changes that would require funeral homes to post their price lists on line. The workshop will be televised, and interested parties can watch by using this hyperlink.
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Funeral Rule Revisions: Some Closing Thoughts
By Bill Stalter on
Posted in Compliance
When the FTC announced its routine review of the Funeral Rule in 2020, the Funeral Consumer Alliance and about half the country’s state attorney generals responded with complaints about online advertising by the funeral industry. The criticism of funeral home websites led the FTC to conduct its own research of online advertising. For a four…
Funeral Rule Revisions: Mark Up on Trade Services
By Bill Stalter on
Posted in Compliance
The FTC’s second area of concern for Funeral Rule revisions is titled Crematory Fees and Additional Costs. For this post, we are going to look at Issues 16 and 17. Funeral consumer advocates are focused on the fact that many funeral homes do not own their own crematory and therefore outsource that service to…
Competing Mortuaries and Cemeteries: when everyone loses
By Bill Stalter on
Posted in Cemeteries
Mortuary Management recently ran a short editorial criticizing cemeteries, stating “we can only conclude that cemeteries will, in the long run, be the losers”, and “it may be time for a reevaluation of standards and staunch principles of the past”. The editorial is nothing more than a handful of comments from anonymous funeral directors about…