Social Security Administration updates millions of death records, but its accuracy with the dead has drawn scrutiny

Roughly 9,000 living people are erroneously declared dead every year, and that can be a financial nightmare for victims.
aafp.org

Death Certificates: Let’s Get It Right

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of death certificates—especially in an era of increasing reliance on evidence-based medicine (EBM)—yet physicians receive inadequate training in this ...
JD Supra

Cause of Death on Death Certificates: Not a Legal Conclusion

Trial lawyers in personal injury cases frequently see death certificates within the (sometimes) voluminous pages of medical records at issue. The death certificate may be critical in a lawsuit for ...
The Conversation

Here’s who decides cause of death, how death certificates work – and whether a person died with or of COVID

COVID was Australia’s third leading cause of death (after heart disease and dementia) in 2022. In a bad flu year we have about 1,200 influenza deaths. We had more than 1,500 COVID deaths in just the ...
The Boston Globe

Why does Massachusetts still put Social Security numbers on death certificates?

The practice gives fraudsters easy access to a key piece of personal information they can use in their scams, officials say State officials worried about fraud are calling for changes to the state law ...
Business Insider

Nonwhite Americans are being misidentified as white on their death certificates

Three days after the funeral of Dominique Scott, a 29-year-old Florida rapper who died July 3, his family received his death certificate from the state's Bureau of Vital Statistics. The family, from ...