Guide To Life Insurance Terms
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Listed below is a useful guide to life insurance terms. It is a list of definitions of life insurance terms that may or may not be familiar to you.
Accelerated Benefit Provision
A provision in many new policies which will allow the policy owner to receive a portion of the death benefit early if the insured person is diagnosed with a terminal illness or permanently confined to a nursing home.
Accidental Death Benefit
A provision added to a policy that provides an additional benefit if the insured dies from accidental causes.
Certificate
A document provided to a person insured under a group insurance policy that provides evidence that the coverage exists.
Convertible Term Insurance
These policies allow conversion, without further medical evidence, to a different type of policy from an insurance company's range.
Decreasing Term Insurance
The sum assured decreases each year throughout the term of the policy.
Dependent protection
Where the protection is required on a permanent basis rather than just for a specified term.
Evidence of Insurability
Medical and other information about a person applying for insurance that the life insurance company keeps confidential, but uses to decide whether the policy can be issued and what premiums will be charged.
Face Amount
The amount to be paid to the beneficiary when the insured dies.
Free Look
The right of the policy holder to have a period of ten or more days to examine an insurance policy, and if not satisfied, return it to the company for a full refund of all amounts paid.
Grace Period
A period of time after the premium due date when an overdue premium may be paid without penalty. The policy remains in force throughout the period.
Guaranteed Insurability
An option that permits the policyholder to buy additional stated amounts of life insurance at certain times in the future, without having to provide new evidence of insurability.
Illustration
A document used in life insurance sales presentations showing year-by-year numbers indicating how a policy will work.
Increasing Term Insurance
Under this option, the benefit payable on death increases and is particularly useful to avoid the sum assured being eroded by inflation.
Insured
The person whose life is covered by a life insurance policy.
Lapse
The discontinuation of insurance without cash value when the required premium is not paid.
Level Term Life Insurance
In this form a policy will pay out a fixed sum on death during the term.
Loan Value
The amount which can be borrowed by the policy holder from the company using the value of the policy as collateral.
Mode of Premium Payment
The frequency of premium payments during the policy year. Premium payments can usually be made on annual, quarterly, or monthly basis.
Mortality Table
A statistical table showing the death rate for each age.
Nonforfeiture Options
A provision in the policy that allows the policy holder to choose how the cash value of the policy will be used if the policy is surrendered or lapses due to non-payment of premium.
Ownership
All rights, benefits, and privileges under a policy controlled by the insured.
Paid-Up Insurance
A life insurance policy where all premiums have already been paid, with no further premium payment due.
Policy
The printed document issued to the policy holder by the company stating the terms of the insurance contract.
Policy Year
A one-year period starting on the day and the month the policy was issued. The first policy year starts on the date of issue, and ends on the day before the policy's first anniversary date.
Premium
The payment a policy holder is required to make to an insurance company to purchase insurance coverage and to keep the policy in force.
Rated Policy
A policy issued with an additional premium to cover the extra risk involved if an insured has impaired health, a hazardous occupation or hobby.
Reinstatement
The restoring of a lapsed or surrendered policy to full force and effect.
Renewable Increasable Convertible Term Insurance
This contract combines the options of increasing the sum assured, converting the policy and renewing the contract.
Reviewable Term
Level term assurance with an option to renew the contract at the end of the term, without the need for further medical evidence.
Rider
A provision added to a policy that provides additional benefits.
Settlement Option
The manner in which the insured or beneficiary may choose to have the policy proceeds paid.
Suicide Clause
A policy provision which reduces or eliminates the amount to be paid if the insured dies from suicide.
Surrender
To voluntarily terminate or cancel a policy for its cash value.
Term Life Insurance
This type of policy runs for a specified time period.
Underwriting
The process of evaluating applicants for insurance and classifying them fairly, so the appropriate premium rate may be charged
Waiver of Premium
A provision added to a policy that will waive the premium payments required by an insured during the total disability of the insured.
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About The Author
John Mussi is the founder of Direct Online Loans who help UK homeowners find the best available loans via the http://www.directonlineloans.co.uk website.
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