Types Of Life Insurance Flashcards
Issues very small face amounts
Premiums paid weekly
Designed for burial coverage
Industrial
Life insurance of commercial companies
Ordinary
Only good for a limited time period
Termination date
Term
Type of term life insurance
Level face amount and level premiums
Level term
Type of term
Provides annually decreasing face amount
Typically used for mortgage protection
Decreasing term
Designed to cover the life of a debtor and pay the amount due on a loan
Credit policy
Type of term
Provides an increasing face amount over time
Increasing term
Allows policy owners to convert their term insurance into permanent policies
Convertible term
Guarantees the insured the right to continue term coverage after the expiration of the initial policy period without having to prove insurability
Renewable term
Provides level face amount that renews annually
Annual renewable term
Type of life insurance product that covers children under their parents policy
Term rider
Provides death benefits for the entire life of the insured
Provides cash values
Whole life
Whole life
Payable throughout lifetime
Straight
Payments limited to a certain period
Limited pay
Premium stays fixed for the first 5 years
Increases at year 6 and stays level after
Modified whole
Policy that exceeds the max amount of premium that can be paid into a policy and still have it recognized as a life insurance contract
Modified endowment contract
Covers the lives of 2 individuals and saves on premium cost by averaging the ages of the two insureds
Joint life
Covers the lives of two individuals
Only pays death benefit upon the death of the last insured person
Joint survivor
Pays a monthly income from the date of death of the insured to the end of the preselected period
Family maintenance policy
Pay an income beginning at the insured death and continues for a period specified from the date of policy issue
Family income policy
The policy owner can make adjustments to the premium or face value amount
Adjustable Life
Incorporates flexible premiums and death benefit. Use gains to fund the cash value
Universal life
Requires a producer to have proper FINRA and NASD securities registration prior to selling. Grows through mutual funds, stocks, and bonds
Variable life
Contains a monthly mortality charge
The policy owner controls the investment of cash values and selects the timing and amount of the premiums
Variable universal whole life