Tracing a life insurance policy

1. check your own, or the other person’s, bank account / credit card statements for evidence of payments to an insurer.
2. use an unclaimed assets tracing service.

How do I find out if someone has life insurance in Canada?

You can find out by contacting the life insurance company directly. Or if you don’t know the name of the insurance provider, you can use the policy search service offered by the Canadian Life and Health Insurance OmbudService.

How can I find out if my mother had a life insurance policy?

Simply type your loved one’s name into the search box at any of the following sites:

1. National Association of Insurance Commissioners – Life Insurance Policy Locator.
2. MissingMoney.com.
3. National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators – Unclaimed.org.

How do I find out if a life insurance policy is still good?

There are many websites that you can use to search for unclaimed insurance policies that are still valid. Some of these include unclaimed.org and missingmoney.com. You can also contact the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

How can I find out if my parents had life insurance?

The only thing I can think to add is to contact the agency that sold your parents their car insurance, etc, and see if they may have taken out a policy there. If your parents have siblings, your grandparents may have taken out life insurance on all of them, so you could ask your aunts and uncles.

How to find out if a deceased parent had a policy?

Insurers from Geico to Lenscrafters to Met Life use MIB to look at your insurance claim history to help assess the rate on your policy. They also have a department that helps search through their databases for folks that are seeking to know if their loved one had a policy.

Can a parent buy a life insurance policy on a child?

However, it’s not entirely impossible for someone to buy a life insurance policy on you without your knowledge. For example, parents can buy a life insurance policy on a child under 15 without his or her signature. If they never inform the child about the policy, the child may never know the policy exists.

How can you tell if somebody took out a life insurance policy on You?

With that being said, if you still believe there is a chance that somebody has a life insurance policy on you, you can run a search with the Medical Information Bureau (MIB) for $75. If you don’t remember if a life insurance policy was taken out in your name, there are some other ways that you may be able to find out! Here are some good ones: