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Oct 13, 2023 · The Loewen Group made a deal with the Black National Baptist Convention, which gave Loewen the opportunity to buy the graveyards at NBC. Loewen would use Black church workers as sales representatives to sell the burial contracts in underprivileged areas, and then hike the prices.
Oct 6, 2023 · While the Loewen Group had Black attorneys on their real-life team of counsels, they were all men. So one of the biggest updates Betts made was changing the lead Loewen lawyer to a powerful...
With the help of Hal, who learned the Loewen Group was preying on the poor Black community in Hinds County, Mississippi through a deal made with the National Baptist Convention, Willie...
Meanwhile, O'Keefe and his wife, Annette, started a charity to benefit the socially disadvantaged, including many Black Americans, who were the most affected by the Loewen Group's...
The defense introduced testimony about a deal Mr. Loewen had with the black National Baptist Convention to buy their graveyards and employ thousands of black church workers as agents to sell Loewen burial contracts.
Nov 2, 2023 · Loewen eventually settled the case for about US$175 million, but the company never fully recovered from what founder Ray Loewen dubbed “the Mississippi tragedy” and went bankrupt.
The Burial is a riveting court drama based on the story of Jerry O'Keefe, who decides to take on a large funeral company called The Loewen Group and hires attorney Willie E. Gary to help him.