Life Assurance
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Insurance: Indian father "had daughters killed to collect insurance"
A Tamil newspaper in Malaysia, Makkal Osai, has carried a report that a villager in Lucknow province, India, has admitted that he killed two of his four daughters so as to claim the proceeds of life insurance policies.
Insurance: AEGON sells Taiwan unit
Netherlands based AEGON, the global insurance company, has completed the sale of its Taiwan life unit announced in April this year. Given AEGON's reasons for the disposal, one has to wonder why someone would pay for it.
Insurance: Long tail lives on beyond James Hardie collapse
As if the continued financial fallout from the collapse of Australian corporate giant James Hardie were not bad enough, news is surfacing of a potentially widespread threat from carpet underlay produced and laid in the 1970s.
Singapore facilitates revocable beneficiaries nominations
Restrictions on who may recieve payouts under a life or certain other types of policy are to be eased to make it possible to re-assign policies under which beneficiaries have been nominated.