A five-step process for tracking down a life insurance policy and making the claim process go smoothly Written By Written by Insurance Staff Writer, WSJ | Buy Side Kimberly Lankford is an insurance ...

When a loved one dies and you know you’re the beneficiary of their life insurance policy, getting the payout is typically ...

Ideally, you would know if you're the beneficiary of a loved one's life insurance policy and have all the information you need to file a claim. That's not always the case, however: More than a billion ...

Life insurance payouts are also called death benefits and are paid out when the insured passes away. Those receiving the payout are called beneficiaries, and can be a single person, multiple persons ...

An untold number of life insurance policies worth millions of dollars go unclaimed every year because loved ones either fail to file a claim or the policy itself is lost or forgotten. When a family ...