My Guide to Life Insurance
If the client’s A1C level is above 8, then guaranteed issue life insurance is a more realistic goal. Insurance agents without question are experts in life insurance, but when it comes to annuities they are usually very restricted in what they can offer. Consulting a psychic isn’t necessary, although it does require that you estimate the timing of your life insurance needs.
If you feel that life insurance settlements are too complicated to understand, it is actually easier once you break it down. The only trick is to determine what type of term life insurance is best for you. But even then, you have to realize that your ‘guarantee’ is actually much higher with a private life insurance policy than it is with the broker-sold variable annuity.
Yet they are more likely to buy life insurance than disability insurance. Check out your payment/billing options: Many life insurance life insurance companies offer discounts to consumers who pay their annual premiums up front. After you, add up the value of your home, personal property, investments, life insurance benefits and retirement accounts you may be surprised to find that your estate reaches into in the taxable category.
Crisitna is a Registered Representative offering securities through MetLife affiliated broker/dealers including Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (member NASD) or MetLife Securities, Inc. The whole purpose of a life insurance policy is to safeguard the people you are leaving behind such as spouses and children. Many people do not understand whether or not they actually require life insurance.
However, it’s important to remember that you’re putting your life insurance or retirement plan at stake. These policies will enable you to convert your current term coverage to permanent life insurance at a later date, and generally a medical exam is not required. Take comfort in know that the process of selling one’s life insurance is typically very confidential.
In the Life Insurance Industry, most new agents are taught the ‘Standard Sales Formula – 100/10/3′. It is a kind of life insurance that is worth the balance of your mortgage. If you are interested in saving yourself several hundred dollars, then this is probably not your wisest option Mortgage insurance works much in the same way that a life insurance policy does.
Once you have decided that you are going to buy life insurance, the next question you need to ask is, how much. Considering the future of his family, he decides to buy some life insurance. First you should work out how much cash you will need instantly available (keyman insurance), money your life insurance company will deliver at the very moment it’s needed, money neither you nor your company have to pay back.
They would advise you have good life insurance, disability insurance and personal liability insurance. In fact, it’s especially important to get good Life Insurance in this situation. The $500,000 universal life insurance policy premium is $2,871 per year.
There’s simply no way that a qualified life insurance agent will tell you this. Most life insurance companies also offer the accidental death benefit rider. The earliest recorded life insurance fraud a case of pretended death comes from England in the 1730’s.
A life insurance sales representative may want you to apply some kind of formula. However, finding the perfect life insurance policy and learning more about the insurance industry in the process is a lot more fun than just signing on the dotted line of an insurance policy that may not meet your needs.
Comments
Comment from Adi
Time December 8, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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Comment from amit_awaits
Time December 8, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Questions to ask the Life insurance Company or Agent:
1) What is your company ratings in the insurance industry?
2) What is my monthly premium for (Your income times 10) if I'm (your age) old and (do not smoke/smoke)?
3) What kind of life insurance do you offer? Which one do you think is better for me? Which one do you own?
Questions to ask a prospective life insurance buyer:
1) What is your age?
2) What is your weight and height?
3) Do you smoke?
4) What is your current occupation?
5) Have you been in the hospital in past 12 months?
6) How often do you drink alcoholic beverage?
7) Is there any illness or disease in your family history?
Are you taking any prescription drugs?
9) If you qualify for life insurance, who do you want to be your beneficiary?
Comment from killinhippies
Time December 8, 2009 at 2:22 pm
First let me disagree with Jkrd156, Insurance should rarely ever be sold as a way to provide income at retirement. Life insurance should always be bought for the life insurance, the cash value is a secondary benefit. While life insurance could be appropriate after all other tax deferred options have been used.
I also disagree with professor wonderful. I have seen CHFC and CLU agents that make their living selling insurance as investments. These are mostly career agents working for captive agencies who have managers pushing product, usually variable life and whole life, because these are the most profitable life insurance for the agent and the company.
Usually for when people are making their first life purchase they are working with limited funds and need maximum insurance.
Term insurance is like renting, when you rent an apartment at the end of the lease you leave the apartment and you have not built up any equity. With term insurance you buy 20 year term and you pay a set price for 20 years. If you die within that time frame your beneficiary receives the death benefit. If you don't die at the end of the 20 years the term expires and you no longer have life insurance. This can be a problem if you still need insurance and you are no longer in good health or maybe you even have a terminal disease.
Universal life Variable life, whole life are all versions of permanent life that are designed to provide you coverage until you do or reach age 100 or in some cases 120. This is more expensive than term but you will always have some life insurance. These policies have a cash value component, meaning that a portion of the premium you pay gets placed in an account that earns interest . After 20 years it is possible that this cash value could be enough to pay your premiums for the next 20+ years.
It is wise for most people to have a portion of both term and permanent life. A good example is a family with young children may want enough life insurance to provide income for the surviving spouse to stay home raise the kids, provide for a college education, etc. Let's say this is $1 million. I would suggest 900K term for 20 or 25 years and then a smaller permanent life policy of 100K.
I routinely run across people from age 50 to 70 that are buying permanent life insurance.
Let's say someone has term insurance and comes down with a terminal illness at the end of the term. Even with health insurance a terminal illness can cause great financial harm to the faineances of the family. Then you are left without life insurance to offset the cost of the illness and the final expenses.
I suggest you look for a local broker that can help you sort through the different companies available. You can use yellowpages.com to search for life insurance brokers in your area. A Broker represents multiple carriers and can help you sort through all the different insurance companies and plan options in your state.
You can call your auto and home agent they specialize in property and causality insurance and usually have a good knowledge of life insurance. But you would be better served with someone that specializes in life insurance.