Posted on January 9th, 2010 in Insurance, life insurance | Comments Off
Occupation plays a very important role in a person’s life. What we do for living pretty much determines our entire lifestyle and delivers certain risks to deal with everyday. If you’re working with toxic substances on a daily basis, you have a type of risk that haul drivers for example are very uncommon with. The same goes for any other high-risk job that has special circumstances posing danger to your health and life. And of course, if your occupation has a higher degree of risk in average, you are likely to pay more for insuring your life. Risk and insurance rates are connected directly, which means the safer your job the lower premiums you’ll have to pay.
Whom does it concern?
If you have an average job at the office with the most hazardous task being dealing with the paper shredder it’s evident that your insurance rates will be quite average as well. But if you work in the circus with wild animals, or jump off planes with a parachute for a living it is very likely that your insurance premiums will be much higher than with your “safe work” peers. Some insurance companies can even deny you with insurance at all because they aren’t willing to assume such a high risk that is insuring you.
To determine how risky and costly your job is for insuring your life you don’t have to be a scientist. Just think about the possibilities of being injured or killed while performing your day to day tasks at work, but be realistic about it. Being killed by an elevator or sucked into the shredder sure sounds mean for a horror movie or novel, but it’s not what happens at the office every now and then. Evaluate the risks you’re taking with your job and if they’re quite high your life insurance will be quite expensive. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on January 8th, 2010 in Insurance | Comments Off
The modern Western society is at war, which influences and affects virtually all domains of life and forces people to reconsider traditions, judgments and practices. This is the war of sexes. And if some domains women are left by men behind, when it comes to insuring Why insuring your life?
The major reason for insuring one’s life is taking responsibility. People tend to have more responsibility over their family, their debts, their property and other things as the life goes on. And when it ends, these responsibilities are left over without security. When you insure your life you take care of your responsibilities when you’re gone, providing the necessary support to your family or those who need it.
Term or permanent policy?
When insuring your life you are likely to encounter two distinct types of policies: term and permanent (also known as cash value). The first provide less costly coverage for a specified amount of time and can be renewed after the term expires. The second usually pay out more money upon the person’s death but are more expensive in general. There are also convertible types of policies, which let you switch from term to permanent when needed without canceling it. Cash value insurance policies cover the person throughout the whole life and are sometimes used more like investments and financial tools rather than simple insurance. Some people use them as retirement plan funding source. So choosing whether to go with term or permanent insurance, you have to decide what you really want from your policy.
Defining the amount of coverage
How much coverage to take with your policy is defined by the amount of income to be replaced when you’re gone. Life insurance in that sense is your replacement in terms of financing, so you should take your usual earnings as a starting point in defining the final amount. Think of the money amount your family would need to sustain a good life when you’re gone – this should be the approximate amount to take with your insurance policy. Read the rest of this entry »
We all want to make sure our family and loved ones are protected and safe no matter what. This is why there are so many companies out there offering you to insure your life. Life coverage is a good way to protect your spouse, children, family members and loved ones from financial hardships in case of your death or disability. But besides insurance features, there are more and more policies providing with additional benefits that have money distribution and investment features to the underwriter. And the question is whether it’s reasonable to use insurance as a form of investment or there are better options for this.
Insuring your life as a form of investment
At first sight, having your life insured is a very good thing to do as you accumulate a good amount of money for your family that can be used for different purposes in case something happens to you. But there’s more to it than just that. In contrast with term policies that have no investment options, cash value (also known as whole life) policies have additional benefits, which make them a good investment instrument. These benefits allow withdrawing money from your account after a certain period if time has passed. You can obtain these funds in different ways: Read the rest of this entry »