Hello Members of the WVFDCOA, I hope this message finds you healthy and safe.  These last few months have been challenging and I hope to bring everyone up to speed on information the Association must share. Vaccine The COVID-19 vaccine has been at the forefront of this office’s business for the last couple months. About [...]

January 05, 2021For Immediate Release: January 5, 2021 Brookfield, Wis. – After years of support from funeral service, thousands of phone calls and emails from funeral directors, and hundreds of Congressional meetings during the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Advocacy Summit, today President Donald Trump signed the BRAVE Act into law, assuring equitable funeral and burial [...]

Arlington National Cemetery announces a limited reopening to visitors on Wednesday, September 9 to allow gravesite visitations to our veterans and families laid to rest in these hallowed grounds. ANC will open to the public from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Face coverings will be mandatory to wear while on cemetery grounds and social distancing [...]

The U.S. government has run into a number of glitches in sending stimulus payments to Americans intended to ease the financial pain from the coronavirus, including money going to the wrong bank accounts. The latest hiccup: Some payments were sent to deceased taxpayers, which the IRS now says must be returned. It's unclear how many dead [...]

Due to the recent COVID-19 crisis, we have cancelled our 2020 convention. The 2021 convention will be held Stonewall Resort next June and will be an exhibit year. Look for more details to follow.

NFDA has just received a document from the CDC outlining guidance for handling individuals who have died or are suspected to have died from COVID-19 (coronavirus). While the guidance focuses on collecting specimens and conducting autopsies for PUI, the CDC notes, “The guidance can be utilized by medical examiners, coroners, pathologists, [and] other workers involved in postmortem [...]

The Department of Homeland Security reminds you that the upcoming REAL ID requirement and enforcement will start in a little more than seven months. Beginning October 1, 2020, every air traveler must present a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license, state-issued enhanced driver’s license, or other acceptable forms of identification, such as a valid passport or U.S. [...]

Please see below for the 2020 Mid Winter Agenda and Registration

Our room block for the upcoming Mid Winter Advocacy Summit meeting ends on Friday January 17, 2020. 2020 Mid Winter Advocacy Summit Meeting February 3-5, 2020 Room Block is OPEN thru FRIDAY! Book today! Room Rate of $107 per night by using code WV1279 Call 304-344-4092 to reserve before 1/17/2020

Welcome to Rob’s Corner where I get to share items of interest in the funeral service profession within our state and on a national level. In 2020 the FTC will conduct a rule review on whether or not to “open the rule”. When this occurs, there will be a period of comment submission.  Then a [...]