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 ...

Three days after the funeral of Dominique Scott, a 29-year-old Florida rapper who died July 3, his family received his death certificate from the state's Bureau of Vital Statistics. The family, from ...

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 ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Technical issues that delayed people from receiving death certificates in Indiana have been fixed but doctor participation in the state's new electronic vital records system still ...