Cremation Law Violations Alleged
A man who contends he was forced to choose between violating the law and losing his job filed suit Wednesday against a Laguna Hills mortuary.
Craig Stewart said in court papers that McCormick & Son Inc. asked him to cremate more than one body at a time and to use the same casket several times without notifying the people responsible for the bodies. This, Stewart said in his lawsuit, was a violation of California’s Health and Safety and Business and Professions codes.
When he refused to do these things, the lawsuit alleges, Stewart was fired on Jan. 16, 1994, by Robert J. McCormick Jr., the company’s president.
McCormick rejected the allegations as “groundless” and said “they’re not legal; we don’t engage in those practices.”
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