UK - Unum Provident has been ordered to pay £66,000 plus legal expenses after poor communication with scheme trustees left a widow without her full pension entitlement.
Mrs Pollitt complained to the pensions ombudsman, David Laverick, when she was told her husband’s enhanced death benefits had never been approved. Mr Pollitt was director of operations at North Am...
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