Shoppers routinely use the internet to compare prices, whether for appliances, cars or hotel rooms. But online pricing remains scant for funeral services, putting bereaved and vulnerable people at a ...

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Rules established before the internet age may be in for a major overhaul to protect consumers in today’s everything online world, and the first business niche to go under the Federal Trade ...

Jane White Thompson died in August. A blood clot traveled from her leg into her lungs, and in a flash, she was gone. “It was very quick and very unexpected,” says her husband, Joel Thompson, who is 62 ...

The days after a loved one dies are terrible for making smart financial decisions. You may not be thinking clearly. You want to do everything possible to honor the person who died. And you have little ...

A Miami entrepreneur is on a mission to make shopping for a funeral home as easy as ordering off Amazon Prime. Ed Michael Reggie, a serial entrepreneur and Miami resident, first came up with the idea ...

Websites are creating fake obituaries or reposting real ones without permission to profit from grieving families. These sites often mimic legitimate funeral home websites, leading families to order ...

Last month, when Jill Frechtman lost her grandmother, she wanted to mark her passing with a memorial service—an effort complicated by a lockdown that prohibited gatherings of family and friends. With ...

Sandra van der Laan receives funding from CPA Australia. Consumers are often unnecessarily upsold on funerals due to a lack of information and real competition, in an industry that is fairly ...