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Old 12-27-2013 | 10:20 AM
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I am curious if FedEx holds Insurance Policies on any of us

“CHAPTER 7

Death Benefits: HOW DEAD PEASANTS
HELP FINANCE EXECUTIVE PAY

JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2008, Irma Johnson, a widow in Houston with two young children, got a check in the mail for $1,579,399. It was the death benefit proceeds from the life insurance policy on her husband, Daniel, who’d died of a brain tumor at age forty-one the summer before. But the check wasn’t payable to the Johnson family. It was made out to Amegy Bank, the company that had fired her husband six years before he died.
The check was accompanied by a note from the U.S. Postal Service, saying that the original envelope had become damaged in processing. But there was no other explanation. Mystified, Johnson called the insurer that had issued the check, Security Life of Denver Insurance Co. The person she spoke to told her that Amegy Bank of Houston was the beneficiary of a life insurance policy on her husband’s life. The insurer had already sent the bank a check to replace the one lost in the mail.
This was the first time Johnson had ever heard of the policy, and she was appalled. The bank had taken out a life insurance policy[…]”

Excerpt From: Ellen E. Schultz. “Retirement Heist.” Portfolio/Penguin, 2011-09-15. iBooks.
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