Investigator to Jury in $26M Life-Insurance Case: Two People Identified the Insured as Alive More than a Year After His ‘Death’

HOUSTON – A Mexico City businessman whose reported death in 2016 was worth $26 million to his wife may have been alive and working as an accountant 14 months later, a private investigator testified Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Houston.

The investigator, Oscar Abraham, never saw Eduardo Rosendi, whose purported death is at the center of a courtroom brawl between, on one hand, Transamerica Corp. and Pruco Life Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Prudential Financial, and, on the other, Blanca Monica Villarreal, who says the insurance giants are unlawfully withholding the millions in insurance payments.