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Banks Use Secret Life Insurance to Fund Bonuses AKA ,Dead Peasant Policies
Source: Wall Street Journal

Banks are using a little-known tactic to help pay bonuses, deferred pay and pensions they owe executives: They're holding life-insurance policies on hundreds of thousands of their workers, with themselves as the beneficiaries.

WSJ Law Blog post on "Dead Peasant" Litigation Surge
Source: Wall Street Journal

As if there weren't enough tough publicity about insurance companies and financial services these days, the Wall Street Journal's law blog yesterday had a post titled: "'Dead Peasant' Policies: The Next Big Thing in Insurance Litigation." In her post, Ashby Jones refers to an a …

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