Respective insurance companies in Malaysia will compensate the next-of-kin of life insurance policy holders who die of the A/H1N1 flu.

Malaysian Deputy Finance Minister Awang Adek Hussein said at Malaysia's Parliament here on Monday that insurance companies would not differentiate death due to the A/H1N1 flu or other causes.

Earlier, there were concerns in the country about whether the death resulted by the A/H1N1 flu would be compensated by insurance companies.

Awang Adek made it clear that insurance companies in Malaysia would pay the compensation for the death of the policy holders as stipulated in their policies.

He stressed that there was no difference whatsoever between a death caused by the disease or other reasons.　

(Xinhua News Agency December 14, 2009)