A woman whose husband died by auto-erotic electrocution in 2008 may benefit from her husband's life insurance policy, after the US Second Court of Appeals in Manhattan ordered the insurance company to reconsider their denial of the $81,000 payment. According to the Post, Amanda Martin found her husband Paul naked from the waist down and prostrate, with "wires attached to him." "I tried to move Paul, but got an electrical shock," Martin said in an affidavit. The insurance company claimed her husband's death arose from a "deliberate act on his part." more ›

The NY Times has a depressing front page article on what Wall Street is eyeing as its next big thing—bundling life insurance: "The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash — $400,000 for a $1 million policy, say, depending on the life expectancy of the insured person. Then they plan to “securitize” these policies, in Wall Street jargon, by packaging hundreds or thousands together into bonds." more ›