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"... but won’t in insurance fraud. “You have to have an actual body to collect on insurance,” says Ahearn. “And it has to be the body of the insured. Ashes are
by keeperofdakeys 7y ago
"... but won’t in insurance fraud. “You have to have an actual body to collect on insurance,” says Ahearn. “And it has to be the body of the insured. Ashes are not a body.”"
It sounds like you can't just get insurance money for a missing person.
- technofiend 7y agoTwenty years ago the industry was suffering an onslaught of fraud. People would claim a person had died and was disposed of via cremation or there was no body at all, etc. I am no expert and the fellow quoted is clearly engaging in a bit of hyperbole, but one has to assume the bar is much higher than it used to be. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/01/business/fake-deaths-abroad-are-a-growing-problem-for-insurers.html https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/01/business/fake-deaths-abro...