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A Few Tips About Permanent Life Insurance Posted By : David Mayer
One way of looking at the choice between term and permanent life insurance is as a lease and a purchase. When you take out a term policy, you lease the right to death benefits during the term. When the contract ends, you have no further interest. But when you buy a permanent policy, it stays in force during your lifetime and accumulates a cash value from a tax-deferred savings component. So a permanent policy is term insurance plus an investment account and many buy this kind of policy because you can borrow from the cash component or surrender a part of the policy during your lifetime.

The Need for Life Insurance Posted By : Mike Armstrong
A major policy question for possible regulation of the use of genetic information in life insurance is whether access to life insurance should be considered an economic issue or a civil rights issue. If the former, insurance companies should be given wide latitude in deciding what information to consider in underwriting.

Group and Social Insurance Posted By : Mike Armstrong
The process of forming contracts depends, of course, on the nature and relationship of the contracting parties. Voluntary individual insurance, under which contracts designed by insurers without significant constraint are offered to the public, is only one of several relationship structures that could be employed.