‘The bottom line is that insurance companies make money when they don’t pay claims,’ said Mary Beth Senkewicz, who resigned last year as a senior executive at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. ‘They’ll do anything to avoid paying, because if they wait long enough, they know the policyholders will die.’

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