Friday, March 26, 2010
Funeral Home Barred
WEST VIRGINIA....
A judge has barred the Adam Toler Memorial Funeral Home in Wyoming County from handling prepaid funerals. In December, Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office filed for an injunction after an audit uncovered misappropriations, that the home had failed to report all of its prepaid contracts as required, and the Internal Revenue Service had levied funds the home hadn't replaced in consumers' accounts. This week, representatives of the funeral home admitted that the business had misappropriated money prepaid by customers and failed to comply with the state's reporting and licensing requirements. McGraw says the funeral home not only refused to comply with requirements that protect consumers, but took consumers' hard-earned money. He encourages anyone who suspects their prepayments have been mishandled to contact the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Hotline at (800) 368-8808 or (304) 558-8986.
A judge has barred the Adam Toler Memorial Funeral Home in Wyoming County from handling prepaid funerals. In December, Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office filed for an injunction after an audit uncovered misappropriations, that the home had failed to report all of its prepaid contracts as required, and the Internal Revenue Service had levied funds the home hadn't replaced in consumers' accounts. This week, representatives of the funeral home admitted that the business had misappropriated money prepaid by customers and failed to comply with the state's reporting and licensing requirements. McGraw says the funeral home not only refused to comply with requirements that protect consumers, but took consumers' hard-earned money. He encourages anyone who suspects their prepayments have been mishandled to contact the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Hotline at (800) 368-8808 or (304) 558-8986.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 4:33 PM 
