Life Insurance

Life Insurance Benefits after a Homicide

When you buy a life insurance policy, you are entering into a contract with the insurance company to provide benefits to your survivors in the event of your death. People buy insurance because of the inherent uncertainty of life. They want to leave something behind so their loved ones wont have to worry about expenses after theyve passed on.

Life Insurance Claims Not Covered

Generally, the insurance company will pay on death claims but there are circumstances under which they will not. These circumstances will be spelled out in the contract, so you have to read it thoroughly to see whats covered and what is not. (1) The first two years of most insurance policies are what is known as the contestable period.

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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 Insurance Advice No Comments

How to Report Life Insurance Fraud Online

No one likes to be a snitch, but sometimes it is essential to take on this role and do the right thing. This is especially true when you discover life insurance fraud. Life insurance fraud affects everyone through increased premiums and increased taxes.

Recognizing Fraud

Recognizing signs of insurance fraud is the first step people can take to protect themselves and to understand the nature of this costly crime. Life insurance is one of the easiest insurance fraud schemes to recognize. There are two basic forms of life insurance fraud. The first is when an individual murders, or arranges the murder of, another to collect on a life insurance policy.

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Thursday, December 8th, 2011 Insurance Advice No Comments

Should You Buy the Life Insurance Offered by Your Employer?

Your employer will probably offer you a life insurance plan when you get a new job. The plan is considered part of your benefits package. However, it may not be as much of a benefit as it seems. There are some situations in which buying into an employee plan is not as beneficial as buying one on your own. At the same time, there are situations for which your company plan will provide excellent coverage for a low price. You need to understand the difference so you will be covered by a plan that will be helpful to you.

Look at the Rate

The first thing you need to look at is the rate. How much will you need to pay each month?

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Sunday, November 6th, 2011 Insurance Advice No Comments

Calculating Your Term Life Insurance Rates

A lot goes into your term life insurance rate. First off, there is an entire branch of mathematical science dedicated to it. This is the sub field of actuarial science. People are paid good money to calculate as much of the risks as is humanly possible, and then factor it all together so that the insurance company can provide you with insurance and make a profit.

What Factors Do Actuaries Look At?

How it works is that you and your lifestyle are first split up into all kinds of different characteristics. For example, if you are a female, you have a slightly longer life expectancy and a slightly lower risk of death annually.

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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 Insurance Advice No Comments

Unclaimed Life Insurance Policies Funds: Resources and Tools

Locating money from lost life insurance and demutualization can be hard; however there are tools to help owners and heirs find these valuable assets.

Finding and claiming lost life insurance policies can be done using various methods. A State’s Missing Property Office may have some funds from unclaimed policies. However, there are no central depositories (federal or state) for these assets. A missing insurance policy is sometimes a problem confronted by legal heirs and beneficiaries who don’t know the company’s name in order to locate the policy.

Demutualization may be another source of unclaimed funds from life insurance policies. This

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Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Insurance Auto No Comments

When is the Right Time to Buy Life Insurance?

Among the many questions that need to be answered when researching life insurance is when exactly should it be purchased. It is after all a well known fact that the older you are, the more it will cost. This does not however mean that you should automatically purchase it as soon as possible as I will now explain.

The point of life insurance is to protect those that are dependent on you. Therefore regardless of the cost of the premiums, there is little point in paying them if you have little to no use for the service that they are paying for. Put simply, it makes no sense whatsoever to purchase life insurance until you have people who are financially dependent on you. Though in some cases this can mean when you get married, for most it is all about the day that they become a parent. Full post…

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Sunday, August 7th, 2011 Insurance News No Comments

Why Life You Need Life Insurance

You may or may have not thought about life insurance. Perhaps you think your savings and investments will cover your family’s needs when you pass away. Think again.

When it comes to a funeral, the average cost would be $5,000 – $6,000. When you depart this life, there are debts, uncovered medical expenses, and estate taxes that your dependents have to pay for. For the people you’ve left behind, a saving asset would be the proceeds from a policy. Your family will be provided with economic stability once your incomes ceases to exist. With the money from your policy, loved ones can pay off mortgages, college tuitions, and maintain their current lifestyle without worry.

What Are Your Life Insurance Options?

Universal, Term, and Whole Life are the 3 basic types of life insurance. Which

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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 Insurance News No Comments