In “The Burial,” the battle is between funeral services provider Jeremiah O'Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones), and the Canadian-owned Loewen Group. Jerry, as O’Keefe goes by, is in some financial trouble.

sets up a meeting with Raymond Loewen (Bill Camp), the billionaire owner of the Loewen Group, who seeks to grow his massively successful death and burial insurance business. They draw up a ...

To raise the money, he’s agreed to sell three of his eight funeral homes to the Loewen Group, a large corporation looking to monopolize the industry. Loewen’s yacht-owning CEO (a wonderfully ...

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 ...

Shareholders of the embattled funeral home operator Loewen Group won't be able to sell their stock on the TSE, after the exchange suspended trading in the stock Tuesday morning. The TSE said the ...

The name of the corporate behemoth is Loewen Group, and its founder and CEO is Ray Loewen, played by Bill Camp. The movie centres on a lawsuit launched by O'Keefe that ultimately ends in a Mississippi ...

Here's what we know about the real court case that inspired the movie. Jerry sued the Loewen Group, which owned more than 700 funeral homes and over 100 cemeteries in the United States, and a ...

He decides to sell a portion of his business to the Loewen Group, which is on a mission to acquire as many funeral homes and related insurance as possible. When the deal becomes entangled in a ...

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 ...

Bill Camp, left, plays former Burnaby MLA Ray Loewen, founder of funeral care behemoth Loewen Group, in a movie now streaming on Amazon Prime. An ex-Burnaby MLA who founded a vast Burnaby ...