Fidelity Life founder Gordon Watson passes away
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Fidelity Life founder Gordon Watson passes away

Gordon Watson, the founder of Fidelity Life, passed away peacefully yesterday after a long illness.

Tue, May 4th 2010 03:55PM
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you will never give or receive a warm handshake from AI when you are seeing a client for a terminal illness claim, and you both know you will never see each other again. AI can not look a widow in the eye and tell her it will take care of things, and it will be OK.
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