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<p>The SGLI program is the military life insurance program overseen by the  Veterans' Affairs (VA) but managed and administered by The Prudential Insurance  Company of America. Recently, a series of news stories by Bloomberg News reported  that the program might not be following the law, and that Prudential was profiting from  the deaths of servicemen and women. The primary purpose of this paper was to analyze  the news articles for factual content and determine whether the journalistic writing style  of the author's research distorted the SGLI program. What we found was that Prudential  ran the SGLI in a manner that was actually beneficial to both Prudential and  policyholders. We also discovered that Bloomberg used a sensationalist journalistic  style, which distorted the facts. This would have the effect of misleading the public and  casting Prudential in a negative light.
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<br>Subjects: Soldiers.; Alliance Accounts; Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation (FDIC); Life Insurance; Office of Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (OSGLI); Prudential; Prudential Insurance Company of America; Retained Asset Account; Servicemember; Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI); Veterans Affairs (VA)</div>
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<dl><dd>Callan, Patrick M.</dd>
<dd>Voogd, Michael</dd>
<dd>Schmid, Christopher M.</dd></dl></div>
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