A South Salt Lake mortuary says it plans to fight a Thursday emergency order by state regulators to shut down after numerous allegations of misconduct emerged about the business.
An attorney for Carver Mortuary Service, Matt Lewis, said the company’s directors, Tanner Carver and Shane Westmoreland, were surprised by the order suspending their licenses, and first learned of it from media reports Thursday night. State regulators had spent the day interviewing witnesses and investigators in a closed-door Salt Lake City meeting before issuing the order.
Regulators also suspended the mortuary’s license, which means the facility must shut down for now.