American General Life Insurance Reviews

For two years, our cancer policy has increased without any notification to us; it just drafted without our being aware of it or budgeting/planning for it ($100 a month; a 33% increase). Both years, we have been told that a letter was generated. Two questions: Was this amount allowed by the commission and 2nd, why the same story for two years in a row? We had no opportunity to accept or decline the increase.

My mother Virginia Branford who is 80 has a policy with this company which my dad,who is now deceased, purchased in 1988. Since I now handle my mother's affairs I checked on her policy. To date she has paid $7714.41 on a $5,000 policy. And the company says I must pay for another 10 years or surrender the policy for $2,388.12

Purchased a life insurance policy in 1959 for son the policy was for $400.00. The company was formerly National Life and Accident Insurance Co. AIG has been collecting on this policy and has failed to give me a receipt for payment of June 3rd, 2003. The payment was $20.76.

My mother isnt really good on computers so she asked me to e-mail you and tell you what happened to her. Apparently there was a class action lawsuit filed against American General life and Accident Insurance Company which she has numerous life policies through. She recieved a classaction notice in the mail and assumed she would get a settlement. She asked her agent (Ann Southern) if she needed to send the paper back in. The agent told my mother that she didnt need to send the paper back in. American General LifeShe was kind of agitated and was ready to leave when my mother asked her that. Now, one of my mothers friends is recieving periodic settlement checks, this lady did send her form in, and my mother feels cheated by this company once again. My mother is in belief that this agent lied to her. What can she do?

I am writing on behalf of my father who elderly and a poor historian. He has been paying a premium as given on quarterly statements since 1985 have never missed a payment.Now effective 2001 the amount that they have been paying for the last 15 years was not the cost of the insurance. American General LifeThey raised the premium 3 times the original premium amount only after they said that what they was paying was not the cost of the policy and that the cash value of the policy have been used up. Walter Whetstone the agent sold them this insurance . I believe that something deceptive and fraudulant has happen. What has happen to all the money that was paid over the years. And now that he is elderly they have raised the cost to make it almost impossible for them to keep the insurance that they have been faithfully paying on time. Could some one investigate this?