Article: Generali extends limit on Holocaust claims

Joseph B. Treaster
International Herald Tribune
02-12-2007
Survivors of the Holocaust and their relatives, who have been fighting for decades to get European insurance companies to pay death benefits for victims of the Nazis, are getting a rare break from a big Italian insurance company, lawyers for the insurer and policyholders said over the weekend. As part of a proposed class-action settlement, the insurance company, Assicurazoni Generali, has agreed to extend its latest deadline for claims by as much as 18 months to allow heirs of Holocaust victims to try to find new documentation on unpaid life insurance policies at a long-sealed Nazi archive in Germany.Representatives of several ...

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