Article: Italian insurer accedes on Holocaust claims

Joseph B. Treaster
International Herald Tribune
02-13-2007
Survivors of the Holocaust and their relatives, who have been fighting to compel European insurance companies to pay death benefits for victims of the Nazis, are getting a break from a big Italian insurance company, according to lawyers for the insurer and policyholders. As part of a proposed class-action settlement, the company, Assicurazoni Generali, on Sunday agreed to give heirs of Holocaust victims another 18 months to uncover documentation on unpaid life insurance policies at long-sealed Nazi archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Representatives of several countries, including the United States, have been pushing to open the ...

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