Vietnam Vet's Funeral Canceled Over Insurance Check Dispute

[The Straight Story]

Vietnam Vet's Funeral Canceled Over Insurance Check Dispute

A Columbus family says a local funeral home canceled their father's funeral the day before it was scheduled to take place after a dispute over an insurance check.
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"This family has suffered a lot of tragedy ... There's no reason why my father should be laying over there ... in ... basement for four weeks," said Monica Grady who is coordinating her father's funeral.

The Grady family waited nearly a month for an insurance check to help pay for the funeral, scheduled for Thursday, Nov 10.

The Gradys showed the funeral home a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which stated an insurance check for $10,000 was on its way -- more than enough to cover the $6,000 funeral expenses.



http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/nov/10/9/vietnam-vets-funeral-cancelled-over-insurance-chec-ar-824406/

[redwitch]

1. Happy Veteran's Day.

This makes me so sad. :-(

[sammytko]

2. Strange - usually the funeral home makes contact with the VA

and knows all ins and outs of insurance payments and "regular" funerals also. That has been my experience with my father's funeral and doing pre-=planning for my mother. We just basically have to show up. Of course, this is a small county and the business has been around for 80 years...

[MADem]

5. This is VERY true--it's odd that the funeral home didn't do that. Makes one wonder if they

know what the hell they're doing.

[msanthrope]

6. According to the story, the policy didn't allow assignment to the funeral home.

So it's possible they contacted the VA, found out they weren't going to get that guarantee, and then, canceled.

[MADem]

3. Double-click, sorry. nt

[MADem]

4. Jesus H. Christ. That's outrageous. WTF is wrong with people? nt