Number	24821
Subject	Insurance
Source	Bloomberg News (New York)
State	NY
Year	2010
Publication Date	7/28/2010; 9/14/2010; 9/30/2010
Summary	In this series, reporter David Evans exposed how "more than 130 life insurance companies" devised a system that allowed them to profit from death benefits that were "owed to families of service members, government workers and millions of other Americans." MetLife and Prudential led the scheme. Evans revealed that the companies withheld $28 billion owed to the families of deceased soldiers. The story prompted "almost immediate changes in U.S. government policies."
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	31
Keywords	life insurance; MetLife; Prudential; Robert Gates; Veterans; taxpayer; American Legion; military
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