Family Wins Claim After Exhumed Relative Tumbles From Mishandled Casket
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A jury has found a Greenwood, Indiana, cemetery negligent and awarded $300,000 to four members of a family after a relative's casket broke apart as workers removed it from a vault.
In August 2003, relatives of William Joseph Henry gathered to watch workers at Forest Lawn Memory Gardens move his casket to a permanent vault.
The casket's handles broke off, sending the casket and the decomposed body to the ground.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An attorney representing family members says cemetery employees violated the cemetery's policies by not using a tray to guide the casket out of the vault or covering it with a sheet.