the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgefield NJ, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday family members said they almost buried a stranger 20 years younger in their mother’s grave after the funeral home mixed up two women with the last name Kim. Kyung Ja Kim was 93 when she died on Nov. 10, 2021.
Now Kyung Ja Kim’s family is seeking a $50 million from Central Funeral Home of New Jersey in Ridgefield, Blackley Funeral Home and Cremation Services, funeral home director Haemin Gina Chong, and Bongho Ha, the mortician.
The lawsuit filed Monday in state Superior Court in Bergen County, Chong showed Kummi Kim a photo of her mother as the casket was being lowered, asking if it was her mother. When Kummi Kim replied yes, funeral home director Haemin Gina Chong directed the cemetery to lift the casket out of the grave and whisked it away to the funeral home, the suit said.
When the family returned to the Ridgefield funeral home from the cemetery in Valhalla, New York, Chong finally admitted there had been a mix-up and that another woman had been placed in Kyung Ja Kim’s coffin, the lawsuit said. Kummi Kim said the peacefulness with which her mother had died was marred and made ugly by the funeral home’s mistake.
The lawsuit charges the defendants with the loss of right to interment, neglectful infliction of emotional distress, intentional infliction of emotional distress, battery and breach of contract.
Its not pleasant but for 50 million let them plant the wrong corpse.
Another frivolous lawsuit and some ambulance chaser lawyer trying to get a settlement.
Mistakes are made in life.
Perhaps give a free headstone but 50mil give me a break
Yeah $50 million lawsuit is ridiculous.
Asking Aint Getting