Varies greatly, but a month should be the tops, unless it's
some large death benefit claim with bona fide suspicious circumstances.
Not exact matches
When the grieving family submitted its
claim for
death benefits under the kidnap and ransom insurance policy the businessman had purchased and paid premiums on for many years, the
large, international insurance company denied the
claim without so much as an investigation.
Basically several states have sued
large insurance carriers and AIG, Prudential, Nationwide and several others have agreed to settle
claims that they haven't done all they could to locate beneficiaries who haven't
claimed life insurance
death benefits.
Over the last month
large insurance companies have settled with several states to pay out millions of dollars owed on life insurance
death benefit claims.
Known as liquidity risk, this can threaten the company's ability to process, say, a
large number of policy surrenders or
death benefit claims.
So using one of my
larger clients as an example, if he died and no one filed a
claim, the company would not only keep the $ 78,000 a year in premium they had earned, but also the cash value of $ 1.2 million and never pay out a
death benefit.
In most term insurance sales
claims result about 1 % of the time thus policyholders end up with a fistful of receipts Most insureds should own some whole life insurance to make sure their is an income tax free
death benefit paid at
death It is my belief that most insureds should own at least $ 100,000 of Whole life in addition to a
large amount of term to cancel out temporary insurance needs.