When a Customer Dies: Navigating Utility Service After the Death of an Account Holder

Published for Coates' Canons on May 19, 2025.

The death of a utility customer presents a unique set of legal and practical challenges for local government utilities. Because utility service is based on a contract between the utility and the customer, that contract ends when the customer dies—leaving … Read more

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