Isn’t there usually a Newton’s Cradle of suits? Like, you can only sue the group you have the most direct connection with as regards the injury: if there’s a nine car pile-up and you’re at the head, then you (or, more likely, your insurance) sues the driver of the car who hit you. They sue the car who hit them for their damages and yours. And so on until the driver who started the whole thing gets the suit for the value of all the others?
So in this case, the family sues the organisation with whom they had a contract and a commercial arrangement, and if the problem was the city’s equipment that the funeral home was using, then the home sues the city, and if the city had subcontracted maintenance, then the city sues them, and so on.
I am, as should be painfully obvious, not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.
