Jerry Umphlett thought that he was making a good decision. In 1995, he sold his funeral-home business to the Loewen Group, a Burnaby, British Columbia-based chain of funeral homes and cemeteries.

My worst investment was in the stock of Loewen Group, which was in the “death care industry.” It was, at the time, the second- largest funeral company in North America, operating more than ...

Funeral services giant Loewen Group Inc. is shutting five of eight North American offices and moving its head office to Toronto in a bid to cut costs and emerge from court protection from ...

At its height in the 1990s, the Loewen Group funeral empire in Burnaby operated more than 1,100 funeral homes and 500 cemeteries in Canada, the U.S. and the United Kingdom. It was the second ...

Mr. Middleton had been a vice president and general counsel for Rand McNally & Co. He also had served as corporate counsel consultant for The Loewen Group. Mr. Middleton is survived by his wife ...

WASHINGTON -- In a long-awaited decision, an international arbitration panel turned down a $780 million case against the U.S. government brought by a Canadian funeral-home company that ran afoul ...

By Jourdain Searles The Burial tells the story of funeral home owner and former politician Jerry O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) and his case against the Loewen Group, spearheaded by flashy personal ...