California Holocaust Survivors Seek Class Action Status of Lawsuit Charging Unfair Handling of Insurance Claims by International Commission.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Roman Rakover, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, believes he is the sole beneficiary of two life insurance policies taken out by his father around 1930 in the amount of $20,000 each. He has a vivid memory of his father sending him every three months to hand deliver premium payments to Generali Life Insurance Company, a large European insurance company. Rakover testified that he saw "with his own eyes" the insurance policies in August of 1939 at a family meeting. After he filed a claim through the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) was established in August 1998 to identify, settle, and pay individual Holocaust era insurance claims at no cost to claimants. (ICHEIC ICHEIC International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims ), he was asked for copies of the policies or the policy numbers. "We were not allowed to carry papers to concentration camps. We didn't have a pair of trousers with pockets, we only had old rags," Rakover testified. Despite this compelling testimony to an ICHEIC appeals panel his claim was rejected because Generali could not find records of the insurance policies. Today Rakover joins other Holocaust survivors There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived in seeking class action status of a lawsuit against ICHEIC claiming the International Commission is bias in favor of Generali by allowing claims to be denied on grounds that are totally unfair and bias in favor of Generali. "This is a perfect example of how the system is skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data against survivors," said lead counsel William Shernoff, senior partner at the Claremont offices of Shernoff Bidart & Darras. "It's not surprising since Generali gives money to ICHEIC for its operations and seems to be operating more as Generali's claims department than an independent commission." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Shernoff, the International Commission has come under heavy fire by Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi John Raymond Garamendi (born January 24, 1945) is a U.S. politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He became the 46th Lieutenant Governor of California on January 8 2007. . In a recent letter to ICHEIC, Garamendi said that changes must happen immediately to insure that justice is done. Garamendi has previously called for ICHEIC's Chairman, former Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger to step down. Eagleburger's salary of approximately $300,000 per year is paid by Generali and other European insurance carriers. All Class-Action Documents available via e-mail. |
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