The Basics Of Life Insurance Policy

With life insurance policy, you get what you pay for. What you pay for is the life insurance policy's face amount, the amount the life insurance policy company will pay when you die.

Since the face amount of the life insurance policy is payable upon the death of the insured person, the element of risk to the insurance company is much different than it is for an automobile policy. When an insurance company issues an auto policy, it hopes you will be a safe driver and will never have an accident, so you will never file a claim. When an insurance company issues a life insurance policy, it knows it will be called upon to pay a claim someday, because every human being dies, for the insurance company, the only unknown is whether the claim will be made in one year or in 50.

Not surprisingly, life insurance policy costs vary based on your age, health and the amount of insurance you buy. The term ordinary insurance is sometimes used to describe individual life insurance. There are three road types of individual or ordinary life insurance policy - whole life, term life and endowment.

Death benefits are the one thing that all types of life insurance have in common. If it doesn't pay a death benefit, it is not a life insurance. The death benefit is the pure life insurance protection. You could argue that anyone who knew for certain that he or she would live to an old age would be foolish to spend money on life insurance policy. The premiums could be put to better use over the course of a long life and it would be necessary to set aside a small sum for the eventual funeral.

But none of us can be certain that we will live for a long time even if our ancestors are long-lived. There is always the possibility that a disease or accident will result in a premature death. Anyone can become a victim of a natural disaster or an act of violence.

The need to cover expenses and replace lost family income if a person dies young is the main reason people purchase life insurance policy but it is not the only reason. Today, many forms of life insurance policy include other types of benefits, in addition to a death benefit, and people also buy life insurance to protect against the risk of not dying prematurely, to protect against the risk of living for a long time.

By Sky Joe