Archive for the ‘Life insurance’ Category

Term Life Insurance

Most of people in US know that there are two forms of insuring one’s life: term and whole. And as you can guess from the name, whole life policies provide continuous coverage for a person’s entire life, while term policies cover only for a specified period of time. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s the purpose of whole life insurance?

Life is precious. People say lots about life. Comments such as “Don’t take life too seriously” and “What doesn’t kill you make you stronger “can be dubious. What is the reason for that? First of all we should take life too seriously because mistakes sometimes can not be erased. We live only once to take it for granted. What doesn’t kill you can make you paralyzed or wounded. Do you want that? Surely not. Read the rest of this entry »

War of sexes through the prism of life insurance costs

The modern american society is at war, which influences and affects virtually all domains of life and forces people to reconsider traditions, judgments and practices. This is the war of sexes. And if some domains women are left by men behind, when it comes to insuring one’s life, the strong sex is clearly losing it, with women going far ahead. But why is that really so?

About a year ago the Society of Actuaries has conducted a study concluding that high amounts of testosterone lead to more harmful effects on health and behavior, not to mention the overall risk-taking property of this substance, which makes men more prone to undertaking hazardous activities than women. Higher blood pressure and lower immune system activity is the cause of the substantial difference in mortality rates and serious health issues, which are most obvious at the age of 22, when men have the highest amounts of the hormone in their blood. Read the rest of this entry »