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Products is plural so we need ‘were’.

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During the economic recession of 2008-09, insurance companies incurred substantial losses marketing elaborate insurance products that, due to a decline in consumer interest in complex insurance products, were never sold.

A- interest in complex insurance products, were never
B- interest in complex insurance products, never was
C- interest, the complex insurance products, was never
D- interest in complex insurance products, the products were never
E- interest, they were never


How do we know that 'were' is used for Products only?
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During the economic recession of 2008-09, insurance companies incurred substantial losses marketing elaborate insurance products that, due to a decline in consumer interest in complex insurance products, were never sold.

The word 'that' after products signals that more information about 'products' is going to follow. In other words 'that' here is acting as a modifier.
And since 'products' is plural, we need a plural verb 'were' to follow to make grammatical sense.

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