So when Irma Johnson learned that her husband, Daniel, who died of brain cancer, had been insured for $1.5 million, it should have been at least a small comfort.
But she did not receive the money. His employer did.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/dead-peasant-life-insurance-policies-fair/story?id=8724327
It's one of the strangest free-market perversions that Michael Moore highlights in his latest film, "Capitalism: A Love Story."
In the corporate practice dubbed "Dead Peasants" life insurance, companies wager on employees' lives, expecting to make money when they die.
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