America owes military veterans a lot – perhaps enough to fudge their death certificates a little. Most medical examiners have been asked by the next of kin of a deceased veteran to put a disease or ...

Trial lawyers in personal injury cases frequently see death certificates within the (sometimes) voluminous pages of medical records at issue. The death certificate may be critical in a lawsuit for ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - People across Ohio are regularly unable to collect life insurance benefits, have their loved ones cremated and find closure due to doctors not signing death certificates. There are ...

COOK COUNTY (WLS) -- The death of Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough has caused confusion and delays in processing vital records, including birth, death and marriage certificates. The clerk's office ...

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 ...

At grieving families’ worst moment, state autopsy delays add to their pain. Death certificates are crucial to the living, experts say. But in North Carolina, family members often can’t get those ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Technical issues that delayed people from receiving death certificates in Indiana have been fixed but doctor participation in the state's new electronic vital records system still ...

In Kansas, a death certificate must be signed by a physician before a person is officially declared deceased. But who signs the death certificate? And when is it signed? As part of The Topeka ...