Family members of an 82-year-old man who was wrongly cremated in December 2019 are now seeking $225,000 in general damages from the parties they...
Century Products, which had provided the embalming services, and Ms Harmony Tee Jing Yi, who was from Harmony Funeral Care at the time, are also defendants. They are represented by Invictus Law Corporation.
On the same day, the undertaker sent Mr Kee’s body to Century Products’ embalming studio in Sin Ming Drive, near Upper Thomson Road, at around 9.40pm. A freelance embalmer later started work on Mr Kee’s body. On Monday, the plaintiffs’ legal team told the court that a doctor diagnosed all six of its clients with persistent complex bereavement-related disorder in March 2021.They said the company had failed to perform tasks such as maintaining a proper log book of bodies received by and collected from the embalming studio.
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