Life Insurance: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Life Insurance

  • insurance that pays a specified sum to the insured person's beneficiaries after the person's death.
  • U.K. term Life Assurance
  • Also known as Life Cover

Additional Resources

Hybrid life insurance
Hybrid life insurance combines different types of life insurance. The major type of hybrid life insurance is variable universal life insurance. Variable universal life insurance combines features of variable life and universal life insurance. You can pay flexible premiums and modify the death benefit to suit your insurance needs. The...
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White papers 2003-09-08
Whole life insurance
"Whole life insurance is also called ordinary or straight life insurance. With whole life insurance, you pay a level premium over the life of the policy. The amount of your death benefit is also fixed. Similar to other forms of permanent life insurance, whole life insurance builds up cash...
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White papers 2003-09-08
Be "Life Smart," Says I.I.I.: Learn How to Shop for Life Insurance - I.I.I. Adds Life Insurance to Its Popular Web-based "Find a Company" Tool
This paper lays emphasis on the importance of choosing the right life insurance policy. Life insurance is the cornerstone of sound financial planning. It provides financial security for the loved ones when a person die, so picking the right life insurance company is an important decision, according to the Insurance...
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White papers 2004-07-15
Life Insurance
This tutorial gives information about Life Insurance. Life insurance is income protection in case you pass away. The person you name as your beneficiary will receive proceeds from an insurance company to offset the lost income as a result of your death. You can think of life insurance as a...
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Life Insurance information: What Is a Cash Life Insurance Settlement?
This article introduces Cash Life Insurance settlement. Cash Life Insurance Settlement companies buy life insurance policies for a percentage of their worth. In essence, the buyer becomes the beneficiary, and when the policyholder dies, the buyer collects the full amount of the policy. There are benefits to choosing cash life...
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Do You Need Fiduciary Liability Insurance?
When a small tool-and-die company that offered its employees Long-Term Disability LTD and life insurance plans failed to notify the life insurance company that premium payments would be suspended for an employee out on LTD, the life insurance was terminated. When the employee died and the life insurance company denied...
Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, Gale Group, life insurance, fiduciary, liability insurance, insurance, payment
White papers 2005-04-01
Universal life insurance
The first type of permanent life insurance that we look at is universal life insurance. Universal life insurance is also called adjustable life insurance. Remember that, with permanent life insurance, some of your premium is invested. This article also explains some features of universal life which includes Flexible premiums, Cash...
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White papers 2003-09-08
World Insurance in 2000: Another Boom Year for Life Insurance
The following study examines the global development of premium volume written by life and non-life insurers in 144 countries. In short, insurance companies wrote USD 2443.7 billion in premiums worldwide in 2000. Of the total, USD 1521.3 billion was generated by life business and USD 922.4 billion by non-life business,...
Tags: Financial Planning, Swiss Reinsurance Co., life insurance, insurance company, insurance, inflation
White papers 2002-01-30
Comprehensive Life Insurance Analysis
How much life insurance do you need? This comprehensive life insurance calculator includes detailed net worth analysis, budgeting and college savings to help you decide how much life insurance you might need. You can also adjust the inflation rate and your expected rate of return to see how these variables...
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Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Household Life Cycle Protection: Life Insurance Holdings, Financial Vulnerability and Portfolio Implications
Using the survey of consumer finances this paper examines the life cycle demand for different types of life insurance. Specifically we test for the consumer's avoidance of household income volatility through the purchases of life insurance. The paper first develops a financial vulnerability index to control for the risk to...
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White papers 2002-08-04
Term Versus Whole Life Insurance
Term insurance, also called temporary insurance, covers a person against death for a limited time. You pay for the coverage period and at the end of the term the contract, or policy, expires. Whole Life insurance, also called permanent insurance, is permanent and does not expire (assuming you continue to...
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How Much Life Insurance Do I Need?
"How much life insurance do I need?" calculates how much life insurance coverage your family may need to cover future expenses in the event of your untimely death.
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Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Life Insurance Facts
Term life insurance at first is the most inexpensive form of life insurance for a specific fixed period of time e. g., 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 years. However, the longer the time period low-cost may become costly. It is very easy to understand. This case study tells us...
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Case studies 2003-02-19
How to Get Cheap Whole Life Insurance Quotes
Whole life insurance quotes the most expensive kind of policies that are on the market due the fact of cash value over time. Whole life insurance is permanent life insurance coverage that lasts as long as a person lives and continues to make on time premium payments. The reason that...
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Mutual Life Insurance
With a mutual life insurance company the best interests of the policy owners not the shareholders is foremost. With a mutual life insurance company the best interests of the policy owners not the shareholders is foremost. The ABC Mutual Life Insurance Company is highly rated by the rating agencies. Life...
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Case studies 2003-02-19
The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilities: Evidence From the Survey of Consumer Finances
The purpose of this study is to examine life insurance holdings and financial vulnerabilities among couples over the life cycle. Two separate concerns motivate our analysis. First, there are reasons to suspect that life insurance coverage is poorly correlated with underlying financial vulnerabilities. Second, households that purchase little or no...
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White papers 2002-02-01
Insurance Duty
The paper reveals that general insurance is a kind of insurance that is applicable to: a property in NSW; or a risk, contingency or event may occur within, or partly within, NSW; or both. General insurance does not include life insurance, a life insurance rider or insurance that is exempt...
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White papers 2003-07-01
Crisis in the Capital Markets Impacts German Life Insurance Companies
The German life insurance market is broken down into two componentsrisk life insurance, which provides coverage in the case of death or injury, and capital life insurance, which operates like an interest-generating savings account to be used for retirement. In the past, insurers offered capital life insurance plans...
Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., life insurance, capital market, insurance company, insurance, banking
White papers 2002-10-02
Case Study: Confederation Life Insurance Co.
The Case Study describes about Life and Health Insurance. In late 1993, Confederation Life Insurance Company ranked fourth among Canadian life insurance companies with 273,000 policyholders, 4425 employees, and $19 billion in assets. Confederation's individual life insurance policyholders will fare relatively well, since death benefits up to $200,000 are guaranteed...
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Innovative Strategies for Using Life Insurance in Charitable Giving
Life insurance is traditional fare on the menu of planned gifts. Making a gift of a life insurance policy to one's favorite charity appeals to a variety of donors because it is a flexible, cost-effective, and in many cases tax-advantaged way to make a major gift that will benefit the...
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White papers 2004-03-10