Bloomberg: Comcast paid $490 million this year to unwind obligations under life insurance policies tied to late founder Ralph Roberts and his wife Suzanne, a remnant of an era when generous executive perks received less investor scrutiny. The payments, some of which the cable company expects to eventually recoup, are related to life insurance policies organized under a split-dollar arrangement — once a common method employers used to help key execs get bigger death benefits. “It seems like a tremendous amount of money.”