Life Insurance policies Flashcards

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What are living benefits of whole life insurance?

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Loan value

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In what type of life insurance policies can the policy owner skip premium payment with out the policy lapsing?

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Universal life

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When does an adjustable life insurance policy accumulate cash value?

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When the premiums paid are more than the cost of the policy

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What is the purpose of establishing the target premium for insurance?

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To prevent the policy from lapsing

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What type of life insurance policy provides permanent protection?

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Whole life

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What type of life insurance policy is Life Paid-up at age 65?

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Limited paid whole life

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What type of policy is typically issued without proof of insurability from the insured?

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Group policy

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In variable universal life insurance, to what policy components does the term variable refer ?

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Cash value and death benefit

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Under a 20-pay whole life policy, in order for the policy to pay the death benefits to a beneficiary, the premium must be paid for what time period?

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For 20 years or until the insured’s death whichever comes first

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When would a 20-pay whole life policy endow?

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When the insurer reach the age of 100

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What are the characteristics of the group that underwriters will consider before issues a group policy?

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Groups Purpose, size, financial strength and turnover

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What universal life option has a gradually increasing cash value and a level death benefit?

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Option A

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What type of insurance is best suited to cover a mortgage?

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Decreasing term

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What are the death benefit options in universal life policies?

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Option A- level death benefits, and Option-B-increasing death benefits

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An individual just burrowed $10,000 on a 5 year note from the bank. The note odd due in installments. What type of life insurance policy would be best suited to this situation?

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Decreasing term

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Who is entitled to the cash values in a life insurance policy?

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The policy owner

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Between adjustable live and universal life policies, which one provides more flexibility to the policy owner ?

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Universal life

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Whole life insurance policies mature when the insured reaches age 100. Of the owner of whole life policy (the insured) does at 80, and there are no outstanding loans on the policy, what portion of the death benefit will be paid to the beneficiary.

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The full death benefit

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The death protection component of a universal life policy is expressed as what type of coverage?

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Annually renewable term

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Universal life policies have two types of interest rates. What are they?

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Guaranteed and current

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In term policies, what happens to the premium throughout the term of the policy?

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It’s fixed (remains level)

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What happens to the cash value when a whole life policy matures?

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Cash value is paid to the policy owner

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A whole life policy that requires that the policy owner only pays premiums for a specific number of years is known as what kind of policy?

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Limited-paid whole life

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What type of policy issues certificates of insurance to the insureds?

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Group policy

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Even the amount of insurance is increased in an adjustable life policy, what will the insurer require from the insured?
Evidence of insurability
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What happens to the premium in an annually renewable term life policy?
The premium increased with each renewal
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A policy states it will pay a specified face value amount of the insured does during the 20 years premium- paying period and nothing of death occurs after the 20 years period. What type of policy is this?
20 year level term
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While life policies provide protection until the insured reaches what age?
Age 100
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Under Option-B in universal life insurance policy, what happens to the death benefits?
The death benefits increase each year by the amount of the cash value increases
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What is the main advantage of converting from group life insurance to individual coverage?
Evidence of instability is not required
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What is the major difference between the most common types of whole life policies: straight life, limited payments and single premium?
Premium payment mode
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What type of whole life policy generate immediate cash value?
Single premium whole life
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What does level refer to in level term insurance?
Face amount
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How is the premium determined in a joint life insurance policy?
The premiums are based on the average age of the insureds
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Who is insured under a juvenile life policy?
A minor
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What elements of an adjustable life policy can be changed by the policy owner?
The amount and payment period of premium, the face amount, and the period for protection
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Group life insurance policies are written as what type of insurance?
Annually renewable term
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The policy owner of a whole life insurance policy is also the insured. What age must the insured stain in order to recover the policy’s face value amount?
Age 100
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If an employee wants to join a group life insurance coverage outside of the open enrollment period, what would the employee have to provide?
Evidence of insurability
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Who owns a group life insurance contract?
The employer (aka- the sponsor of the group).
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What policy component Missy decrease in decreasing term insurance?
Face amount
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Why are policy loans not available on teen insurance?
There are no cash values to borrow against
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An insured received a monthly summary for his life insurance policy. He notices that the cash value of the policy is significantly lower this month than it was last month. What type of policy doors the insured have?
Variable
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What type of premium is charged on a straight life policy?
A level premium for the life of the insured
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What type of whole life insurance policy only requires a payment of premium at its inception, and in addition to providing insurance protection for the life of the insured, endows at the insured’s age 100?
Single premium whole life
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In annually renewable term policies, what is the annual premium based upon?
The insured’s attained age
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In a joint life policy, when is the death benefit paid?
Upon the first death
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If an insured terminates membership group life insurance, to what type of insurance can the insured convert the coverage ?
Whole life
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What type of policy offers pure death protection?
Term
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Regarding taxation, how does the cash value of universal life policy accumulate?
Tax deferred
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Variable whole life insurance is based on what type of premium?
Level fixed
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Which of the following are not allowed in credit life insurance?
Creditors requiring that a debtor buy insurance from a certain insurer.
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All of the following could own group life insurance except?
A group needing low-cost life insurance.
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Annually renewable term policies provide a level death benefit for a premium that.
Increases annually
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Which of the following policies would have an IRS require corridor or gap between the cash value and the death benefits?
Universal life- Option-A
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Which of the following best describes annually renewable term insurance?
It is level term insurance
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All of the following are true about variable products EXCEPT?
The premiums are invested in the insurer’s general account
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