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Cecilia Nowell

Owners of Colorado funeral home where 190 bodies found ordered to pay $950m

The Return to Nature funeral home in Penrose, Colorado in October last year.
The Return to Nature funeral home in Penrose, Colorado, in October last year. Photograph: Jerilee Bennett/AP

The Colorado couple who owned a funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last year were ordered to pay $950m to the victims’ families – a largely symbolic victory for families of the deceased.

According to an email sent to victims by Leventhal Lewis, the firm that filed the lawsuit, it is the largest judgment in Colorado’s history.

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