It's make or break for both the insurers and the insured of the pre-need insurance industry.

In a bid to give justice, Congressman Eladio M. Jala yesterday urged the victims of the college assurance scam to sue companies that failed to fulfill educational benefits for their beneficiaries.
The call was prompted following failure of the companies involved to pay the tuition of the insured students.

REP. JALA

Reports reaching the Chronicle bared that some nursing students of Holy Name University (HNU) were not allowed to take examinations last semester for the College Assurance Plan's (CAP) failure to settle their school fees. The Chronicle contacted CAP yesterday but to no avail since its employees, including a certain Marino Obenario and Vangie Bumaat were not available for comment. Other students in other educational institutions, who relied much on said company for their tuition, suffered the same fate.

At the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, board member Amalia Reyes Tirol raised the issue on companies that did not fulfill their commitment to shoulder their obligations.

The SP has yet to make a move in aid-of-legislation to pressure these companies to settle their obligations with the planholders.

In an interview yesterday, Jala, said that the affected parents should come together, so they can file a case against CAP and others involved in the non-payment of the obligation.

While admitting it's really a problem, he said that it should be resolved once and for all and the only way is to file a suit against those involved.

He said he will request lawyer Salvador Diputado, president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Bohol chapter to provide free legal assistance to the victims as part of the IBP's program.