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 ...

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.

But plaintiff lawyer , casting the Loewen Group as an evil foreigner, turned in a performance of such drama (Warner Bros. is developing a film) that the jury handed down the largest award in state ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...