Mikal Watts Grills Investigator Who Concluded $26M Life-Insurance Claim Was for Mexico City Man Still Alive

If a Mexico City businessman faked his death in 2016 to steal $26 million from two U.S. life-insurance giants, he’s done a remarkable job of lying low since, the lawyer for the businessman’s wife suggested Thursday.

Mikal C. Watts of Watts Guerra in San Antonio drove that point home repeatedly in cross-examining a private investigator called as a witness by the insurance companies, Transamerica Corp. and Pruco Life Insurance Co., in a civil trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal in Houston. Pruco is a subsidiary of Prudential Financial.