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Long Lost Life Insurance Policy? Tips for Tracking It Down

If you can’t find the life insurance policy of a deceased relative, here’s your biggest problem: There’s no central, national database of life insurance policies. So if you’re hunting for a policy — and have had no luck finding the policy itself in any drawer or pile of papers — here are ways to find it.

What good is life insurance if the beneficiaries don’t know about it or aren't able to find the policy after the policy holder passes? When the beneficiaries do not know the company that wrote the policy, they need to track down the necessary information so they can contact the company and have the policy paid out.

Often, this is a task that falls to the executor of the estate.

Recently, Nerd Wallet published a list of helpful tips to conduct this task in an article titled "How to Find a Lost Life Insurance Policy."

The list includes:

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Reference: Nerd Wallet (March 31, 2015) "How to Find a Lost Life Insurance Policy."