Trial Concludes for Virginia Man Accused of Killing Son for Insurance

By | April 10, 2017

  • April 10, 2017 at 12:30 pm
    Counterpoint says:
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    It is common to get that many life policies with such a combined total payout on such a young child? I can perhaps understand funerary expenses or the cost of “replacing” the child if you adopted or needed fertility treatments but 3 policies totaling $500,000 seems excessive.

    • April 10, 2017 at 2:43 pm
      Agent says:
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      Me thinks the guy who bought 3 different policies on a child had ulterior motives. Send him up.

  • April 10, 2017 at 1:26 pm
    Mary Bookman says:
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    The agent who sold these didn’t see s red flag? I sell insurance and have a policy on each one of my grand kids with a $10,000 benefit. The agent should be questioned as well.

    • April 10, 2017 at 6:04 pm
      Counterpoint says:
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      Can I ask what the motivations are for buying any life policies on people so young (like your grandkids) are? Is it a whole-life versus term savings thing, is it for death expenses, or is it to ease pain and suffering after a child dies? I was always confused on the motivations for this.

  • April 11, 2017 at 10:31 am
    Jenifer says:
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    I insured my son with a term life policy, when he was only 6 months old. It can be converted to whole life without evidence of insurability when he turns 25. (He is now 24.) I wanted to be sure he could be insured at a later age, regardless of what turns his health might take as he grew up. For all any of us know when a child is born, that child may develop debilitating medical conditions that make them uninsurable at a later point in time; it’s good planning to insure against the risk of later uninsurability. (Although I agree, the amounts in this case seem a bit over the top!)



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