One of Europe’s largest insurance companies was hit with subpoenas by the State of California and with a $135 million suit by a family for allegedly stonewalling demands for payment on policies taken out by Holocaust victims and survivors. California’s insurance commissioner, Chuck Quackenbush, said at a news conference that the Assicurazioni Generali of Trieste, Italy, was guilty of five decades of avoiding its responsibilities to Jewish policy holders and their heirs.
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