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How a Rhode Island lawyer found a loophole that let his clients profit from other people's deaths

ProPublica: The new @ThisAmerLife: a tale of betting on death. We published the print version: http://t.co/GMTLEsWL

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ProPublica: The new @ThisAmerLife: a tale of betting on death. We published the print version: http://t.co/GMTLEsWL

Jake Bernstein: There seems to have been a problem w/the link to my story, "Death Takes a Policy." Here it is again: http://t.co/xGpRBcHc

Jake Bernstein: My latest: A tale of death and money and the transformation of the life insurance biz. http://t.co/xGpRBcHc

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