Sauder Schelkopf handles cemetery cases nationwide. We currently represent families whose loved ones were improperly buried or whose remains were disturbed. These cases may involve various issues of funeral home and cemetery fraud and neglect, including:
- Placing more than one body in a burial plot or coffin
- Misplacing a body or interring it in the wrong plot
- Lost bodies that cannot be located after burial
- Selling body parts for medical purposes
- Mutilation, mishandling, or disfigurement of bodies
- Switching a body from an expensive coffin to a cheaper one before burial
- Mistaken cremation of a body
- Burial of a body that is meant to be cremated
Read about our case in New Jersey
New Jersey’s Evergreen Cemetery Improper Burial Class Action Lawsuit
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Experience Matters
Sauder Schelkopf is a nationally recognized class action and personal injury law firm. The firm’s partners currently serve as court-appointed lead counsel in courts across the country and have been selected by the National Trial Lawyers Association as some of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania since 2012. The attorneys at Sauder Schelkopf have recovered over $500 million on behalf of their clients and class members.
We Want to Hear from You
If you have been a victim of negligence or abuse by a cemetery, funeral home, crematory, or mortuary, contact the lawyers at Sauder Schelkopf by filling out the form on this page or calling 888.711.9975