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Life Insurance is a form of insurance that pays a beneficiary in the event of the death of the insured person. When a policy is purchased, a specific death benefit is chosen. Life insurance is a contract between the policy owner and the insurance company. The policy owner (or policy payer) agrees to pay a defined amount called a premium. The insurance company agrees to pay a sum of money upon the death of the insured person. The beneficiary, the...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
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Lorna Kepler's death was mysterious, involving no known motive or suspect; even the means were mysterious. In the ten months since her daughter's death, Janice Kepler had joined a support group, trying to come to terms with her loss. Leaving a session one evening, and noticing a light on in the offices of Millhone investigations, she knocked on the door.
10) Death benefit
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Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...
11) Wild oats
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2016
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Eva, a widow and retired history teacher, enjoys a quiet life. Everything changes when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. At the not-so-gentle urging of her best friend Maddie, Eva deposits the money and the two friends head to the Canary Islands with every intention of living it up. But their fantasy is short-lived when they discover that they have become media sensations overnight....
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[2005]
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Since her husband Eddie's death in a boating accident eight months ago, Alice Glendenning has struggled to make ends meet while waiting for the insurance company to pay up. When Alice takes a job as a real estate agent, she makes a new friend, Charlie Hobbs from whom she is supposed to try to buy his waterfront land for a developer. Things quickly become a nightmare for Alice when her two children, Ashley and Jamie, aren't on the school bus home one...
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[2013]
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One winter night in 1879, at a Kansas campsite near Crooked Creek, a man was shot to death. The dead man's traveling companion identified him as John Hillmon, a cowboy from Lawrence who had been attempting to carve out a life on the blustery prairie. The case might have been soon forgotten and the apparent widow, Sallie Hillmon, left to mourn, except for the $25,000 life insurance policies Hillmon had taken out shortly before his departure. The insurance...
14) Left you dead
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Roy Grace novels volume 17
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2021
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"Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the case of a missing woman in Brighton. Is this Roy Grace's most challenging case yet? A mystery that is leaving him totally confounded for the first time in his career. Most Sundays, Niall and Eden Paternoster like to go for a drive and visit country houses. She likes to look at them, he likes to dream that one day . . . However, most weeks they also end up bickering about something or other. This...
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[1998]
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"G" is for gumshoe : Kinsey Millhone's thrity-third birthday brings about final renovations to her apartment, a new ase, and the top slot on Tyrone Patty's hit list. Obviously, it would turn out to be a birthday to remember. "H" is for homicide : To the cops, the death of claims adjuster Parnell Perkins looked like a robbery gone sour ; to Kinsey Millhone, it looks strangely suspicious. As the evidence leads Kinsey to insurance scammer Bibianna...
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