The following is a script from "Not Paid" which aired on April 17, 2016. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Rich Bonin, producer.
When you take out a life insurance policy, you pay premiums in the expectation that when you die your spouse or your children will receive the benefit. But audits of the nation's leading insurance companies have uncovered a systematic, industry-wide practice of not paying significant numbers of beneficiaries.
In a little-known series of settlements, 25 of the nation's biggest life insurance companies have agreed to pay more than 7 and a half billion dollars in back death benefits. However, about 35 insurance companies have not settled and remain under investigation for not paying when the beneficiary is unaware there was a policy, something that is not at all uncommon.
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