My father died several years

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 07:08 pm Post Subject:

wow...umm contact your local department of insurance and see what resources are availible to find out that information?

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 02:37 am Post Subject:

The insurance division will be of no help. The OP needs to go to MIB.com and click on the consumers section. It will then show an area that allows the consumer to check on life insurance policies. They have more than 170 million records on purchased life insurance policies. It will cost a few bucks to research the info, but it's the only decent place to go.

InsTeacher 8)

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:08 am Post Subject:

FRANCES, Why there wasn't any effort to locate the policy after your father's death? Then your mother could have been the source of information.

Anyway, the following are the methods to search for a life insurance policy:

• Documents and other important papers of the deceased.
  
• Bank statement or the tax return of the last two years if the policies weren't paid up.
  
• Contact the employer of the deceased or inquire with his friends and family.
  
• Contact the insurance agent who had sold them policies. You may also contact the insurer with which your parents had auto and/or home insurance with.

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:30 am Post Subject:

contact your local department of insurance and see what resources are availible to find out that information?

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 06:12 am Post Subject:

Hi Frances..

My father died several years ago and my mother passed away last week.

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 07:12 pm Post Subject: hey

Hey Frances, was he a veteran? I was shocked to find out my father had a military life insurance. It sat there since 1970's. No one ever told me there was one!
You never know. Call veterans affairs and check. Have his ss# and birthdate ready. Its worth a shot and looking into. Reason I am mentioning this. I am running into alot of people lately who have had fathers that had these from that generation. In those days it was very affordable to pay on life insurance. Hope you track it down! cyndi

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 05:18 am Post Subject:

Hi mightyoak,

Call veterans affairs and check.

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 06:57 pm Post Subject: YUP?

Yup I called veterans affairs. Call the toll free number. The lady said there was a policy and she was sending the info out to the beneficiary. She would NOT tell me the amount tho. I waited, nothing came. So I called back about a month later to check.
The next time I called VA, I got someone else on the phone. He told me the amount, who was the beneficiary, and I almost fainted. Now remember these are big places. One hand doesnt know what the other is doing. So one person At the VA wont tell me, the other person I get, blurts it out.
I knew something was fishy because (theives) called the funeral home for my fathers death certificates before his body was even cold.
So you just play dumb and keep at it. You cant be shy. Playing dumb goes a long way.
You may not get told the $$$ value, but they will tell you if one exists. I think the actual policy file number I got when I contested it. But I had no info what so ever, and not a scrid or a clue there was ever even a policy, in my fathers house. ANYWHERE. Not even an envelope from Veterans affairs.
If there is no evidence anywhere sometimes its fishy.
You need the name, ss# and birthdate.
I suppose anyone could call and check. cyndi

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 04:07 am Post Subject:

She would NOT tell me the amount tho.

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 05:13 am Post Subject:

Hi Mightyoak,

So one person At the VA wont tell me, the other person I get, blurts it out.

He told me the amount, who was the beneficiary, and I almost fainted.