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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Sally Kestin
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Three out of four funeral claims the federal government paid after last year's hurricanes in Florida covered deaths unrelated to any of the storms, a state review has concluded.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave families up to $7,500 each to bury or cremate loved ones whose deaths were supposed to be a direct result of one of the four hurricanes that struck the state last August and September.
But Florida's medical examiners reviewed 306 deaths FEMA approved statewide and found just 74 could be blamed on the storms. In the other 232 cases, the cause of death was suicide, unrelated accidents or...
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