A Jefferson County jury has found a Bessemer funeral home and two of its employees negligent in the switching of identities of two women prior to family viewings in 2009 and awarded the families of the two women nearly $1 million.
The jury blamed Brown Service Funeral Home in Bessemer, owner Samuel Modder and ex-employee Willie Lewis for mistakenly swapping the identification tags on the bodies of Elizabeth Carroll and Esther Eubanks. The roommates at a McCalla nursing home died within hours of each other and were taken to the same funeral home.
Carroll’s family found Eubanks in Carroll’s casket and wearing Carroll’s clothing. Each family sought $890,000 in damages.
The jury awarded $490,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages.
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