This episode appears to be based on the true case of a scandal involving Italian insurance company Assicurazioni Generali subsidiaries, whose company declined to pay on policies of at least forty families of Polish, Czech, Yugoslavian and Hungarian origin who perished in the Holocaust.
Jacqueline Antaramian (Donna Grimaldi) previously played the role of Farrah Patel in Episode 8.10, Ritual (1997).
Ronald Guttman portrayed three different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 1.6 Everybody's Favorite Bagman (1990) - Farber.
- Episode 10.8 Blood Money (1999) - Assistant Italian Consul.
- Episode 11.3 Dissonance (2000) - Carl Reger.
Damian Young has played five different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 10.8 Blood Money (1999) - Daniel Catterson.
- Episode 11.4 Standoff (2000) - Benson White.
- Episode 14.20 Everybody Loves Raimondo's (2004) - Counselor Sizemore - Sonny King's attorney.
- Episode 17.16 Murder Book (2007) - Judge Stephen Emerton.
- Episode 20.20 The Taxman Cometh (2010) - Bruce Graham.