Standard Life has been ordered by the Pensions Ombudsman to reconsider its decision to pay pension benefits to a deceased policyholder's mother instead of his ex-wife.
The pensions ombudsman said Standard Life behaved "recklessly" by paying out to the policyholder's mother without checking if there were any other claims to the policy, and without seeing an origin...
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