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Types of Life Insurance Flashcards

1
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Term Life Insurance

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Lasts for a set period and then expires

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Terms tend to last anywhere from…

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1 to 30 years

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Term might be renewable up to…

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A certain age

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Renewed term will have increased premium due to…

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Age

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Term is often the highest death benefit for…

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Lowest price

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Pure Insurance

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No cash value

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Term might be convertible into perm insurance without…

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No new medical exam

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Term conversion might result in…

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Increased premium based on person’s new attained age

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Level Term

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Unchanging death benefit

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Decreasing Term

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Decreases the death benefit over time, even as premium stays the same

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Credit Life Insurance

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Decreasing term insurance designed to insure a borrower for a loan balance

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Credit LI: Who is the owner and beneficiary?

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Lender

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Credit LI: Who is insured and pays the premium?

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Borrower

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14
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Credit LI: Original face amount can’t be more than…

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Original loan balance

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Credit LI: If loan is repaid at death…

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Any extra might be paid to borrower’s chosen beneficiary

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16
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Credit LI typically cannot…

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Convert to permanent

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Increasing Term

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Term insurance with a death benefit that goes up over time as premiums stay the same

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Increasing term is sometimes layered on top of perm LI to…

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Provide special benefits

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Deposit Term

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Increases premium for first year to offset cost of buying more insurance later

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Permanent Life Insurance

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Meant to insure someone for life

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Perm technically might mature/stop at…

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100 or more, with money going to owner

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Perm premiums are often…

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Level by default

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Perm is used when there is…

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Permanent need for death benefit

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Perm is used to avoid or defer various taxes and…

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Escape the probate process

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25
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Perm policies have…

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Cash value

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26
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Perm policies might allow loans from…

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Insurer

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27
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Perm policies might allow for partial…

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Withdrawals of cash value

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28
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Perm policies might apply…

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Interest to the cash value

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29
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Perm policies might result in…

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Cash surrender value or free insurance if the policy is cancelled

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30
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Cash Value

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Provides an asset while the insured is still alive

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CV: Premiums will be split to cover…

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Risk of death, insurer expenses, and to fund CV slowly over time

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CV: Can be used by the policyholder for…

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Loans, withdrawals, or left alone to collect interest

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CV: Surrender charges…

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May apply

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CV: As long as premium is paid, the beneficiary gets…

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Death benefit, not the cash value

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Policy Illustrations

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Intended to visualize and explain the expected changes in the premiums, death benefits, or cash value

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36
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Policy illustrations must be clear about…

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Which aspects are projections vs. guarantees

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37
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Policy Loans: Policyholders can borrow against…

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Cash value

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38
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Policy Loans: Interest might be…

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Fixed or variable

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39
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Policy Loans: If death occurs…

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Unpaid balance comes out of the death benefit

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40
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Policy Loans: If policy is cancelled without death…

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Unpaid balance comes out of cash surrender value paid to owner

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Policy Loans: If loan and interest are greater than cash value…

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Possible cancellation by insurer

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Non-Forfeiture Options

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Allow policyholders to utilize cash value even if they want to cancel

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43
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Cash Surrender Value

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Cash value minus overdue premium and unpaid loans

44
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Temporary Extended Term Insurance

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Same death benefit and no needed payments, but not available for high-risk insureds

45
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Paid-Up Permanent Insurance

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Lower death benefit but no needed payments

46
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If converting, cost of insurance will be based on…

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Person’s attained age

47
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Traditional/Ordinary Whole Life Insurance

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Basic perm insurance with level premium, level death benefit, guaranteed, fixed rate of growth in cash value

48
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Interest-Sensitive/Current Assumption Whole Life

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Whole life insurance with premiums and crediting of interest that might fluctuate with the economy

49
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Interest-Sensitive/Current Assumption WL: High interest rate

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Lower premiums and/or more credited to cash value

50
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Interest-Sensitive/Current Assumption WL: Low interest rate

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Higher premiums or less credited to cash value or a lower death benefit

51
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Interest-Sensitive/Current Assumption WL: Includes minimum guarantees of interest and…

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Maximum guarantees of premium

52
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Universal Life

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Permanent life insurance that offers flexibility to change premium or death benefit as needed

53
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UL: Interest on cash value can fluctuate but…

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Has a minimum guarantee

54
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UL: More likely to allow…

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Partial withdrawals of cash value

55
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UL: Option A

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Has level death benefit

56
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UL: Option B

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Can increase the death benefit as the cash value rises

57
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UL: Premiums

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Annual statements disclose how premium is divided

58
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UL: Premium divided into…

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Insurer admin expenses, cost of death benefit, cash value

59
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UL Limits: Too much reduction in premium can…

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Eat into cash value

60
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UL Limits: If premium and cash value are too low…

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Death benefits can be reduced

61
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UL Limits: If premium is too high and too much goes to cash value…

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Policy becomes modified endowment contract

62
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Modified Endowment Contract

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Loses favorable tax status

63
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UL Limits: Increase death benefits might require…

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Proof of good health

64
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UL Limits: Partial or full withdrawals are possible but…

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Might require a surrender charge

65
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Adjustable Life

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Permanent life insurance that lets policyholder change 2 of 3 and have the third automatically adjusted

66
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AL: Options to Adjust

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Premium, death benefit, or duration of coverage

67
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AL: Interest will only be earned…

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Single, fixed rate throughout the contract

68
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AL: No itemized report of…

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Insurer expenses vs mortality cost vs cash value

69
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AL: No allowance for…

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Missed premium

70
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Variable Life

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Permanent insurance that exposes cash value to market risk in exchange for possibly higher returns

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VL: Policyholder makes decision about investment of…

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Cash value

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VL: Guaranteed minimum death benefits but…

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Not guaranteed cash value

73
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VL: Full and partial surrenders might require…

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Surrender charge

74
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VL: General Account

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Variable life premiums for mortality cost and insurer expenses belong to insurer

75
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VL: Separate Account

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Variable life premiums for cash value

76
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VL: Money in a separate account can be put into any of several options chosen by the owner and…

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Won’t be taxed until paid to the owner

77
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Variable life can’t be sold without…

A

Securities license

78
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Producers who sell variable life are also regulated by…

79
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Before variable life purchase, must provide…

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Prospectus that explains history of investment performance

80
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Variable Universal Life

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Combines flexibility of universal life and investment options of variable life

81
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VUL allows for flexible premium and…

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Death benefits

82
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VUL allows cash value to be invested by…

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Policyholder in a separate account

83
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VUL doesn’t guarantee…

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Cash value

84
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VUL requires what license?

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Securities

85
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Modified Whole Life

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Permanent life insurance with artificially low premium for a few years and higher premium thereafter

86
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Modified Whole Life is often intended for families who expect…

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Major increase in income after a few years

87
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Joint Life

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Compensates a surviving spouse when the other dies

88
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Joint life is also known as…

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“First to die” insurance

89
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Joint life premiums are based on…

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Average life expectancy of 2 lives

90
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Survivorship Life

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Pays after both spouses have died

91
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Survivorship life is also known as…

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“Second to die” insurance

92
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Industrial Life Insurance

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Small permanent life policies; often no medical exam but relatively high per-dollar cost

93
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Pre-Need Life Insurance

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Permanent life insurance sold for funerals

94
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For pre-need LI, who is the beneficiary?

A

Funeral Home

95
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Pre-Need LI: Excess amounts go to…

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Insured’s chosen beneficiary

96
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Pre-Need LI: Might have increasing death benefit to account for…

97
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Family Policies

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Intended for spouses with children and differing incomes

98
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Types of Family Policies

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Family Income, Family Maintenance, Family Protection

99
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Family policies are blended policies that combine…

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Term and perm insurance

100
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Family Protection Policy

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Intended to insure a whole household

101
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Family protection policies combine…

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Perm LI on top earner; High amount of convertible term insurance on other adult; smaller amount of convertible term insurance on children

102
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Family Protection Policies: Children are covered automatically at no extra cost with no medical underwriting if they live beyond…

103
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Jumping Juvenile Policy

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Perm LI on a child with level premium

104
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Jumping juvenile policy death benefits multiply by what when they turn 18 or 21?

105
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Endowment Insurance

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Policyholder gets the policy’s face value amount if the insured person doesn’t die during a certain time

106
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EI: Beneficiary gets the death benefit if…

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Insured dies during that time

107
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EI: Loses tax benefits of…

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Traditional LI

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