Is there a website or a way to find out if any type of insurance policy claim was filed for someone who has passed away?
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Is there a website or a way to find out if any type of insurance policy claim was filed for someone who has passed away?
My father past away a few years ago, and I was recently told by an uncle that his ex wife claimed a life insurance policy on behalf of the three children that she had with him. I am not sure if its really a life insurance claim or something else. With my father’s accident report (passed away in an automobile accident) and/or social security number will I be able to get that type of information? and if so, from where or how?
Asked on June 23, 2009 under Insurance Law, Georgia
Answers:
B. B., Member, New Jersey Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 14 years ago | Contributor
I'm not sure that any such database exists, or, if it does, that anyone outside the insurance industry can get information from it. And I'm not sure what, if anything, you'd want to do with information about your late father's insurance policy.
There might not be anything mysterious or underhanded about this. It isn't all that unusual, in a divorce, for a father to be ordered to take out a life insurance policy for his children, with the mother as the person receiving the funds on the children's behalf, for as long as the children remain underage. It's a substitute for the child support he would have paid had he lived.
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