New Illinois Department of Insurance Rules Clarify Use of Life Policy Finder and How Insurers Must Conduct Searches After Receiving a Death Notice
The Illinois Department of Insurance has implemented new rules governing life and annuity insurer conduct upon receipt of a death notice, and for interaction with its Lost Policy Finder service for consumers (50 Ill. Adm. Code 920 et seq.). These rules were drafted in response to requirements in the Illinois Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act, which went into effect in 2017 in the aftermath of the national controversy related to how some life and annuity carriers were making use of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File.
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