Manny es un músico de jazz que vive apaciblemente en Nueva York con su esposa Rose y sus dos hijos pequeños. En una aseguradora, una empleada lo confunde con un ladrón que había robado allí unos días antes y lo denuncia a la policía. Comienza entonces para él una angustiosa pesadilla: es detenido y acusado de una serie de hurtos perpetrados en el barrio. Lo terrible es que todos los testigos y las pruebas caligráficas corroboran su culpabilidad. Tras salir bajo fianza, intentará demostrar su inocencia. Mientras tanto, su esposa sufre una aguda crisis nerviosa y es internada en un psiquiátrico.
Situada en Alaska cuenta las desventuras de Paul Barnell, propietario de una agencia de viajes, que está pasando una situación personal complicada, ya que su mujer, Margaret, sufre una enfermedad degenerativa. Paul decide utilizar un cadáver que ha aparecido en un basurero cerca de su oficina para intentar cobrar la póliza del seguro de vida de su hermano (Raymond, al cual hace años que no ve) y con el dinero mudarse con su esposa un lugar más cálido. Ted está casado con Tiffany y es el agente de seguros encargado de verificar las alegaciones de Paul Barnell. Gary es un sicario de la mafia local que intenta recuperar el cadáver.
Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.
Tras perder su carga a causa del oleaje de una tormenta, el remolcador "Sea Star" se refugia en el ojo del huracán para realizar reparaciones, cuando avistan un navío científico ruso aparentemente abandonado. Todos los problemas que afligían a la tripulación por la pérdida de su carga parecen solucionarse cuando el capitán les informa del dinero que pueden conseguir por el rescate del navío. Pero cuando restablecen la energía del barco, algunos tripulantes empiezan a desaparecer misteriosamente...
A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead ...
When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.
Un millonario contrata a un investigador privado para que siga a su esposa para confirmar que le es infiel y así poder divorciarse. Pero lo que el investigador descubre es que la esposa se dedica a cuidar a su anciana madre, y pasa el tiempo en la playa tomando demasiado alcohol y nadando en el mar. También se da cuenta de que es una mujer abusada físicamente. Cuando ella intenta suicidarse, él la salva comenzando así un romance que lo convertirá en el principal sospechoso del asesinato del esposo.
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.
U.S. marshal sets out to end an insurance scam: salesmen provide cow town folk with insurance against outlaw activity, outlaws who work for the insurance salesmen.
A former robber (whose partner was his father) has reformed and is now running an insurance business with his girlfriend. An ex-partner frames him for a burglary. When his father gets out of prison, they go after the ex-partner.
Madhavan Mahadevan, who comes into the city from a village to see off his sister-in-law and her daughter after the death of his elder brother, an upright Customs Officer (KB Ganesh Kumar). While running around to claim the insurance money, he comes to know that his brother was actually murdered by the underworld don Irumbanakkal John (Joy Mathew).
Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse.
Historia policiaca en la cual un hombre convence a su mujer de intentar hacerse con el dinero del seguro de vida de ella.
A rookie paramedic spends 18 hours in an ambulance with a road crash victim who struggles to be admitted to any hospital.
The lawyer Franziska Schlüter works for the Aescuria insurance and is responsible for processing applications for disbursement of occupational disability policies. The company policy provides as a guideline to prevent the approval as far as possible. When the widow of a victim, who committed suicide after being rejected, storms the office to loudly accuse these machinations, Franziska begins to doubt the correctness of her work and to rethink. She quits and works as a freelance lawyer to help injured parties legally to get their rights. First she deals with the case of a family in the neighborhood. The father has been in a wheelchair since an accident. However, the Strelaus have not yet seen any money from the insurance company. Initially not taken seriously by colleagues, the shy woman takes on the fight against the health insurance system and has to fight against resistance and above all with her own self-doubt.
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
James (Sreenivasan) is an average police officer, apathetic towards his job and only in it for his monthly salary. Due to a misunderstanding during a blood test at a laboratory, he believes that he has a fatal disease and is about to die soon. He eyes the insurance payout his family would get if he dies in action and embarks on impossible missions to get himself killed in action.