WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Life Insurance Policy Locator continues to connect consumers with lost life insurance. Each year, millions of dollars in life insurance benefits go unclaimed by beneficiaries who can't find their deceased loved ones' policies or in some cases may not even know the policies exist. That's where the Life Insurance Policy Locator comes in. This free online tool, maintained by the NAIC, has received 145,432 requests which has led to 46,665 matches of lost or misplaced life insurance policies or annuities with claim amounts of $650,520,451 million being reported by companies through July 31,...
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5 days ago Over $ million in unclaimed life insurance benefits found. Find out if you're entitled to money. How to claim or find a lost life insurance. If the holder of a life insurance policy dies before telling the beneficiary where his or her policy is, the beneficiary will need to find the policy in order to claim the. Also, check address books for the names of any insurance professionals or companies—an agent. If you can't find the life insurance policy of a deceased relative, you've probably checked the obvious places — desk drawers, file cabinets. Missing life insurance policy? If you're the beneficiary of a relative who just died, and you can't find the life insurance policy, don't...
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Column: How to score a piece of California’s $365 million in unclaimed life insurance benefits It might surprise you to learn that the state of California is sitting on a pile of cash that belongs to consumers — a big pile of cash — and is having trouble giving it away. At issue are life-insurance payouts owed to state residents. Under California law, insurers are required to turn over to the state any funds that go unclaimed for three years. But audits of insurers’ books that began in 2008 found that the companies were clinging to billions of dollars that didn’t belong to them. California joined 40 other states in prying $7.4 billion from more than two dozen life insurers since 2011,...
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How to find lost life insurance policies When my father passed away we thought he had a life insurance policy, but we haven’t been able to track it down. Do you know of any resources that might help? Lost or forgotten life insurance policies are actually quite common in the U.S. In fact, it’s estimated that around $1 billion in benefits from unclaimed life-insurance policies are waiting to be claimed by their rightful beneficiaries. While unfortunately, there isn’t a national database for tracking down these policies, there are a number of strategies and a few new resources that can help your search. Here are several to get you started. Search records: If your dad died...
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Media Contact for Division of Insurance Life Insurance Policy Locator Tracks Millions for Massachusetts Consumers in Second Year Jacqueline Horigan, Public Outreach Boston — Today, the Division of Insurance announced the Life Insurance Policy Locator — launched by the Division of Insurance through the National Association of Insurance Commissioners — has matched consumers with policies totaling $2,133,064 million in the past 12 months. The NAIC introduced the free national locator service in November 2016 to make it easier to connect consumers with lost life insurance policies or annuities. In Massachusetts, 342 beneficiaries have been matched with $4,102,947 million since the...
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Most life insurance policies are designed to pay out a cash sum to your loved ones if you die while covered by the policy. It can help them deal with everyday money worries such as household bills, childcare costs or mortgage payments. You choose the amount of cover you need and how long you need it for. You can take out life insurance under joint or single names and you can pay your premiums monthly or annually. For more help, take a look at our life insurance calculator or speak to your financial adviser. Do I need Life Insurance? The answer to this depends on your individual circumstances. But if you have you people that depend on you financially, such as children or a partner who relies...
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Life Insurance Policy Claim Denied? CALIFORNIA INSURANCE LAW FIRM GIANELLI & MORRIS CAN HELP YOU GET THE BENEFITS THAT ARE RIGHTFULLY YOURS Insurance companies deny life insurance benefits just when you need it most Providing for the financial security of your family after you are gone is a top concern of most breadwinners, and life insurance is one of the main ways most people choose to gain this peace of mind. Life insurance can be critical to helping surviving family members replace lost income, keep up with mortgage payments, and pay estate taxes and other probate costs without having to sell off property or spend their inheritance on a funeral, burial and other final expenses....
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Why Consider Buying Life Insurance? The first thing you need to decide is how you and your loved ones could benefit from life insurance coverage. Once you have a grasp of what you want, and how life insurance for seniors will benefit you, it will be easier to choose the best senior life insurance for your situation. Dependents who rely upon you for income Do you know how you would provide for your loved ones if you pass away? This is a question that people of any age might have to wrestle with, obviously, but you may have particular concerns if a dependent suffers from a disability and relies upon you for income or care, or if your spouse is no longer of working age. Large debt—and many...
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This time I want to talk about lost life insurance policies left behind by loved ones who have passed on. People often tell me there’s no way THEY would have unclaimed money waiting for them because they are way too anal and organized to have left money lying around out there somewhere. And I always counter with the fact that if not you, then maybe a relative left money behind that you don’t know about. That’s exactly what happened to my next guest. Her name is Kerry Armstrong and she has quite a story. So many people fail to ever search, so I have to ask: what prompted you to conduct an unclaimed money search? My father passed away in 2013 and in dealing with his estate, I went on...
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Life Insurance Policy Ownership The insured or the beneficiary: Who actually owns a life insurance policy? Depending on the ownership type, the policy owner can be owned by either the person who is insured OR the beneficiary (the person who the policy is designed to pay out). The policy owner. The policy owner has full and total control and can cancel or change the policy. The owner can be either the insured, the beneficiary, a joint ownership between the two parties or even a third party like a superfund. The life insured. This the person who's life is insured against them passing away. If the life insured passes away within the term of the policy then a payment is made to a beneficiary....
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