Costs :
Writing in an October 24, 2013, issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, columnist Paul M. Barrett found, regardless of its lower overhead, SCI has more exorbitant costs than autonomous Funeral Directors East London service home. Barrett cited “information arranged” by a “‘attendant’ burial service arranging administration” Everest Funeral Package, which found that for “customary memorial services, SCI charges $6,256 overall (barring coffin and graveyard plot), 42% more than free thinkers.”
Texas :
In the last part of the 1990s, SCI was associated with a discussion including claimed infringement of Texas State treating laws. The procedures took a political inclination because of Robert Waltrip’s companionship with the group of then-lead representative George W. Hedge and Waltrip’s mission commitments to different individuals from the Bush family. Alluded to as “Funeralgate” or “Formaldegate” in the media, the discussion was broadly plugged when Eliza May, a chief with the Texas Funeral Service Commission (TFSC), was terminated while examining SCI.
Florida :
In 2001, it was accounted for that worker of the Memorial Gardens graveyard close to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida had oversold the graveyard, so bodies were covered in some unacceptable spots, isolating spouses from wives; vaults were aired out by an excavator; bodies were uncovered, with bones, skulls, and covers tossed into close by woods; bodies were stacked on top of one another, and remains were moved without advising family members.
Virginia :
- On April 26, 2007, ‘The Washington Post announced that an SCI Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, had inappropriately covered the remaining parts of the stillborn little girl of Nsombi Hale in a grave excessively shallow (in a grave around 8 inches/20 cm profound). Naomi Hale was recording suit against SCI.
- After an interior examination by SCI, lawyers working for SCI denied the charges against the organization in a letter to Virginia burial service regulators, and a couple of days after the fact, the Post announced that Robert Ranghelli, one of the SCI representatives who had certified the underlying reports of ill-advised giving of bodies, was terminated while following the underlying reports in the paper.
California :
- On September 14, 2009, a legal claim was recorded against SCI and Eden Memorial Park, a Jewish graveyard oversaw by SCI in Mission Hills, charging that they were annihilating graves to account for new interments.
- The Los Angeles Times revealed that state authorities discovered no proof of mass grave aggravations. Russ Heinrich, a representative for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, said, “We have not seen any proof of the sort of enormous profaning that [is] being alleged…
- The sort of movement they’re claiming [is] not effectively covered up, particularly on a determined, huge scope premise.” The offended party’s lawyer dismissed the discoveries of the state’s examination. The claim stayed progressing actually 2009.
Massachusetts :
In 2010, the State Board of Registration charged the SCI-claimed Stanetsky Chapel, a Jewish memorial service home in Brookline, with genuine infringement of state law and guidelines regarding an occurrence where a lady was covered in some unacceptable grave, then, at that point disinterred without a legitimate license and reburied in the right grave with the lady’s family not being told of the mix-up and the remedial methodology.