The state of California served subpoenas on eight European insurance firms in a bid to extract complete lists of policyholders who perished in the Holocaust or survived concentration camps. The subpoenas come in the wake of California’s newly enacted Holocaust Registry Law, which compels insurers doing business in the state to provide such lists. Insurance companies that fail to testify are liable to fines, contempt citations and the revocation of their licenses to do business in California.
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