New York funeral home may finally lose its license amid latest shocking lawsuit alleging man’s body was left to rot for days

A troubled funeral home’s license may finally be revoked, just as a troubling new lawsuit further tarnishes its reputation.

Bronx-based RG Ortiz Funeral Homes faces “fines and potential license revocation” following “the outcome of the findings” of an investigation by the state Department of Health, a spokesperson told The Post on Monday.

The health department, which regulates funeral home directors’ licenses in New York through the Bureau of Funeral Directors, could not comment specifically on the investigation or charges, the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, Ortiz is being sued once again, this time for allegedly failing to properly care for the body of the beloved father, whose body arrived in decomposing state for a second burial in the Dominican Republic.

According to the lawsuit, his family was horrified to find their father in such an advanced state of decomposition that they decided to forego a second viewing and proceed directly to the funeral.

The body remained in the viewing room of the funeral home in the Bronx for about eight days, according to an attorney representing the devastated family.

“Eight days in a consulting room — no refrigerator and no mummy,” said attorney Phil Rizzuto, who told The Post he has nearly 10 open cases against Ortiz. “I can’t imagine what it’s like. It must smell like a corpse, right?”

An attorney who has represented the troubled funeral home in several lawsuits did not respond to a request for comment.

The latest lawsuit, filed last week in Bronx Supreme Court, comes less than a month later. Another family accuses funeral home of sending beloved grandmother’s body to wrong country and allowed her remains to decay as well, horrifying the woman’s survivors.

Even before patriarch Antonio Cerda Garcia died on March 25 earlier this year, his family had made arrangements with Ortiz to have him buried in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, according to the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, Garcia’s body was sent to the funeral home the day he died, and he took responsibility for preparing and “properly and hygienically transporting” the body to the Dominican Republic.

But after days of waiting, his body arrived April 8 in a “decomposed, unpreserved state,” forcing the family to cancel the funeral and hold only a cremation, the family’s lawsuit states.

“It’s weird that they don’t care about their customers,” Rizzuto said.

Ortiz, a funeral home chain with locations in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, has been in business for a long time Hot water for the accusations from their contempt for the dead – with allegations of disrespect go back to the past Until 2017.

Last summer, the city’s Consumer and Worker Protection Department reached a settlement worth hundreds of thousands of dollars For customers above Alleged predatory and deceptive practices.

Agency spokesman Michael Lanza said New Yorkers harmed by Ortiz can call 311 and seek compensation or they visit websites.

The State Attorney General’s Office did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.