Category Archives: Life Insurance

How To Get The Best Life Insurance

Posted on: June 3rd, 2011 by Peter Choma

The Canadian life insurance industry is regulated by the government and has many laws in place to protect the consumer. Many independent associations also operate in Canada that work to ensure that life insurance brokers have access to continual professional development this combined with a commitment to continually improving the standards of qualifications make Canadian life insurance a safe product to purchase.

Who can you trust
How else can you be sure that the life insurance that you are purchasing is of good quality? All life insurance professionals are licensed, meaning in order to sell insurance in Canada they must pass the required exams. The Life License Qualification Program (LLQP) and the Life Licensing are exams that are specifically designed to provide that the broker or life agent is qualified to sell life insurance.


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How Did Life Insurance Come Into Origin?

Posted on: January 13th, 2011 by Peter Choma

The History of Life Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

The History of Life Insurance can be traced back some 5000 years ago. There weren’t any documents to support the insurance policies, but there were still ways to promote it. The definition of insurance is to have coverage against a risk and if someone wants to protect one’s life, he/she can purchase the life insurance policy.

The first of all the life insurance policies

The concept of life insurance can be traced back to China some 5000 years ago. Insurance as in then was protection against pirates at sea. The way to protect a ship from falling into the hands of pirates was to allow other ships to carry the cargos of different ships so that if a ship was attacked by pirates,


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Protect Your Family

Posted on: October 19th, 2010 by Peter Choma

Your top priority if you have dependants is to ensure that they are protected financially if you were to die or be unable to work for a prolonged period. Here we concentrate on the role that life insurance can play in your financial plan.

Bear in mind that not only the loss of a breadwinner’s salary could cause financial hardship: if you are caring for children, your spouse or partner might need to pay for professional childcare and/or babysitters if you were to die.

Similarly, you should take into account any extra costs of running the home, maintaining the garden, and so on. A nation-wide government survey found that housework, still done mainly by women today,


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