It's worth knowing. I didn't know about the companies can ask you once thing until I was speaking to a lovely lady one day on the 'if somebody has died' advice line at Eon. She'd previously worked in a finance role and she told me.
I'm still so grateful to her because I was in bits not knowing how I'd pay Mums last few bills and funeral too. People like Skank don't comprehend this stuff because they have no conscience whatsoever.
Yes, if they've got anybody's name as a point of contact at all on a deceased persons account, they'll try getting what they're owed. Xx
ETA: Mum was disabled & housebound, she had her benefits paid into my account, I paid all her bills & shopping & what have you. I had to provide 6 months evidence of my bank statements & receipts to the council to show her incomings & outgoings. Obviously I redacted all my personal transactions, good job I'd kept records of all her transactions
mum could never get any insurance of any sort health wise due to all her ailments & what have you.
