[...] Term life insurance policies are a lot less expensive than permanent policies, so for people who needed to buy life insurance during the recession, term products were likely more popular. But now that the economy is showing signs of recovering, people may be more apt to purchase higher-cost permanent life insurance policies that grow cash value or include an investment component. It will be interesting to see how the numbers play out for the rest of 2010… will term life insurance policy sales bounce back, or will the growth of permanent policies continue?

[...] For some people, the benefit is worth it. But for most of us, it makes sense to buy a term policy and keep our investments separate from our life insurance. But either way, the Consumer Boomer article provides a good summary of how the various types of coverage work. If you’d like to get quotes for your particular life insurance needs, we’re be happy to help.

[...] Term life insurance policies are a lot less expensive than permanent policies, so for people who needed to buy life insurance during the recession, term products were likely more popular. But now that the economy is showing signs of recovering, people may be more apt to purchase higher-cost permanent life insurance policies that grow cash value or include an investment component. It will be interesting to see how the numbers play out for the rest of 2010… will term life insurance policy sales bounce back, or will the growth of permanent policies continue?

[...] For some people, the benefit is worth it. But for most of us, it makes sense to buy a term policy and keep our investments separate from our life insurance. But either way, the Consumer Boomer article provides a good summary of how the various types of coverage work. If you’d like to get quotes for your particular life insurance needs, we’re be happy to help.

[...] Term life insurance policies are a lot less expensive than permanent policies, so for people who needed to buy life insurance during the recession, term products were likely more popular. But now that the economy is showing signs of recovering, people may be more apt to purchase higher-cost permanent life insurance policies that grow cash value or include an investment component. It will be interesting to see how the numbers play out for the rest of 2010… will term life insurance policy sales bounce back, or will the growth of permanent policies continue?

[...] For some people, the benefit is worth it. But for most of us, it makes sense to buy a term policy and keep our investments separate from our life insurance. But either way, the Consumer Boomer article provides a good summary of how the various types of coverage work. If you’d like to get quotes for your particular life insurance needs, we’re be happy to help.

[...] Roy Bubbs, President and CEO of Hooper Holmes, noted that life insurance carriers spend an average of $500 to underwrite an application, and he believes that his company’s product that reduce that amount by half. My guess would be that it will also speed up the underwriting process, much as the electronic application process for health insurance policies reduced underwriting times for some policies from weeks to days over the last decade. [...]

[...] If you have life insurance through your employer, be sure you know how much coverage it provides and how far that would go. If you need to add additional life insurance coverage, a basic term policy of 20 or 30 years will probably do the trick. Premiums are based on age at issue, so the younger you are when you get your policy, the less you’ll pay for the life of the policy. And since life insurance policies are medically underwritten, the healthier you are, the better rate you’ll get. The time to make sure that your family is protected is today.