Many families have experienced the loss of a loved one only to discover later that a life insurance policy existed tucked away in old files, forgotten about or just unknown to the beneficiaries. Life ...

Life insurance policies sometimes get lost. Here's how to find them.

Imagine paying life insurance premiums faithfully for decades, believing your loved ones will be taken care of after you’re gone, only for the payout to never reach them. It might sound unthinkable, ...

Lost or forgotten life insurance policies are very common in the U.S. It’s estimated that more than $7 billion in benefits from unclaimed life insurance policies are waiting to be claimed by their ...

The Social Security Administration maintains the only federal database that insurers are required to periodically check for deaths. Issues with the database, however, have resulted in millions of ...