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Insurance

Jan. 10, 2007

Insurance Industry Disputes Legal Fees for Holocaust Survivors' Policies

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. insurance industry is playing hardball with California over $6 million in legal fees from a law meant to help Holocaust survivors collect on policies taken out before the Nazis took power in Europe.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. insurance industry is playing hardball with California over $6 million in legal fees from a law meant to help Holocaust survivors collect on policies taken out before the Nazis took power in Europe.
      The American Insurance Association wants the big payout because its lawyers went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to ov...

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