Lawmakers are scheduled to take up a bill Wednesday that would require death certificates to include the deceased’s recent immunizations – regardless of whether there was evidence the vaccine had ...

The death certificate of Chris Nicholl is changed to reflect he had brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma.

The parents of a woman found shot to death nearly 10 years ago are suing to have the death certificate changed from suicide to homicide. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court by ...

Why Do We Need a Death Certificate? The IRS may disagree, but the death certificate is arguably the most important legal document in existence. It's the only legal proof that someone has died. The ...

Death certificates are crucial to the living, experts say. But in North Carolina, family members often can’t get those documents for many months — and sometimes more than a year — because of delays in ...

Floridians are facing delays in obtaining death certificates for deceased loved ones as state officials respond to a potential cyberattack, creating holdups in funeral arrangements and sparking fears ...

The West Virginia Department of Health has changed its death certificate process to improve access for families, according to a community announcement. The West Virginia Health Statistics Center will ...

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A Skagit County mother is pushing for changes to the way death certificates are filled out after her son was poisoned with a counterfeit painkiller. She said the current system ...

But in North Carolina, family members often can’t get those documents for many months — and sometimes more than a year — because of delays in the completion of state autopsy reports. Without death ...