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 ...

Sandra Autry’s stable life as the wife of a retired police officer abruptly ended in April when he died in hospice care. The Scottdale couple had lived comfortably on a modest income since they ...

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 ...

PENDLETON, Ind. — Problems are persisting with Indiana's new online system that registers birth and death certificates. Hundreds of Hoosiers still can't get death certificates for loved ones who died ...

Residents can now request and verify vital records dating back to 1925 through new digital portals ...

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 ...

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 ...