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Joint Term Life Insurance Explained

Posted on: November 6th, 2013 by Peter Choma

Joint Term Life Insurance Explained

First of all, what is “Term Life Insurance” ?

Term Life Insurance is where you take out a policy to cover a death of the insured for a set period – the Term.  To have  Joint Term Life Insurance Explained, we have to talk about a few more topics. These are typically used by people who may have a mortgage, or other large repayment commitment. These people require coverage to make sure that payments are covered in the case of death. Once the Term insurance is finished you do not get any funds in refund for not making a claim. In addition, there is no surrender value.

Once you stop paying the premiums on a joint term policy,


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Hobbies that may make your Life Insurer Squeamish

Posted on: September 13th, 2013 by Peter Choma

Hobbies That make your Life Insurer Squeamish

Things like smoking or having a high risk job will affect your life insurance policy – namely the premiums will be higher in relation to the risk you take. Most people, however, do not think of their hobbies when they take out a policy. What hobbies may make your Life Insurer squeamish? Some activities that you perform as a hobby in your spare time will make your insurance company very nervous. An obvious example;  having “skydiving” as a weekend hobby will affect your policy. It will cost you a lot more than someone who doesn’t go skydiving as you have a greater risk of being killed while enjoying this hobby.

Failure to inform your life insurance company of a potentially dangerous hobby could result in the company not paying out in the event of a death while partaking in that hobby,


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Does my job affect my life Insurance?

Posted on: July 16th, 2013 by Peter Choma

Does my job affect my life Insurance?

Life Insurance companies are in the business of making profits from the policies that they sell. This means that for each policy they issue they expect to receive more premiums than they agree to pay out. If they didn’t do this they would go out of business. Does my job affect my life Insurance? Read below to find out.

This means that they have to judge and assess your; evaluating how much risk there is of you dying an unnatural or early death. The greater risk of you dying an early death, then the higher the premium.

This risk is based on a set of industry wide statistics used by most life insurance companies.


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