California: 14,000 Residents Eligible For Unitrin Settlement

Unitrin has already identified 14,000 California residents who own, or owned, policies affected by the old rating practices. Other policyholders and beneficiaries not identified by Unitrin may also qualify for benefits if they can show that they have owned affected policies, or that they are the heirs or beneficiaries of owners of the affected policies, California officials say.

The affected policies, known as burial policies, were sold mainly to African-Americans. African-Americans paid higher rates than comparable white purchasers, California officials say.

Most of the affected policies were sold before 1970.