If you have a wrongful death case involving an individual who passed away many years ago, you may encounter record retention policies that leave you with a filing cabinet full of “No Records” ...

A death certificate is a final marker in someone’s life — an official accounting of the end. The legal forms are used by families to settle estates and by public health officials to assess whether the ...

A bill before the Colorado state legislature would require a deceased person's gender identity be recorded on their certificate of death under penalty of a fine and/or jail time for anyone who ...

PENDLETON, Ind. — Problems are persisting with Indiana's new online system that registers birth and death certificates. Hundreds of Hoosiers still can't get death certificates for loved ones who died ...

More than half of all death certificates signed by someone other than a medical examiner list the wrong cause of death, which affects families, mortality statistics and public health research, ...

Sandra Autry’s stable life as the wife of a retired police officer abruptly ended in April when he died in hospice care. The Scottdale couple had lived comfortably on a modest income since they ...

The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that causes of death are public records and must be available at county levels. The ruling Tuesday came in a lawsuit filed by the Evansville Courier & Press and ...

ENGLEWOOD, Fla. (WFLA) – Family members of Phyllis Williams Izzo, who passed away last month at the age of 76, are dealing with the unthinkable. No one will sign the death certificate, so her body ...