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Funeral Consumers Alliance,
Inc. (FCA), on behalf of its roughly 400,000 members
and a nationwide class of consumers, has filed
a lawsuit in federal court in California seeking
to stop the country's three largest funeral homes
chains and the nation's largest casketmaker from
shutting out competition and fixing casket prices
at artificially high levels. The suit has been
filed against funeral conglomerates Service Corporation
International, Alderwoods Group, Inc., Stewart
Enterprises, Inc., and Batesville Casket Company.
The suit seeks to prevent the defendants from
boycotting independent casket discounters (ICDs),
and from raising casket prices through price-fixing
agreements.
Joining FCA in the suit are
several individual consumer plaintiffs, who seek
damages on behalf of all consumers who purchased
Batesville caskets from the funeral home defendants.
"For years, funeral
homes have conspired to artificially inflate casket
prices," said Joshua Slocum, executive director
of FCA. "We expect this lawsuit will put
an end to these conspiracies, that it will bring
free and fair competition to the casket market,
and that consumers will be compensated for the
damage this behavior has wrought."
FCA and the consumer plaintiffs
allege the defendants and their co-conspirators
have engaged in a group boycott to prevent ICDs
from selling Batesville caskets and certain other
brands. They also allege that as part of the boycott,
the defendants have mounted a campaign of disparagement
against ICDs and the caskets they sell. FCA believes
this campaign has helped steer customers away
from purchasing caskets from ICDs, and toward
the artificially expensive Batesville brand of
caskets the defendants sell. The plaintiffs further
allege that the defendant funeral homes engaged
in various forms of price coordination in further
violation of state and federal competition laws.
FCA alleges the defendants' conduct has suppressed
competition in casket sales, which has cost families
billions of dollars in overcharges.
If successful, the lawsuit will
bring an end to these anti-competitive and anti-consumer
practices so grieving families can enjoy substantially
lower prices and greater choices for caskets.
The lawsuit will also allow the consumer plaintiffs
to recover the overcharges that consumers of Batesville
caskets have been made to pay.
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