Holocaust Survivors Win Support From Congress for Insurance Rights

Holocaust survivors struggling to collect what they say is $20 billion in Jewish life insurance policies never paid by European companies scored a major breakthrough this week when members of Congress filed legislation allowing them to sue.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., introduced two companion bills that would force European companies such as German's Allianz SE and Italy's Assicurazioni Generali to disclose lists of pre-World War II policies and enable the aging survivors to recover compensation under those policies in U.S. courts.

"People who are wronged are entitled to seek justice," Nelson said in a statement....