One of the big issues in the life insurance industry overall in the last several years is the fact that many people are wary of the investment that buying such a policy takes. 

It should come as no surprise to those in the life insurance industry that consumers generally don’t know what they need from life insurance.

In the past few years, the life insurance industry has faced many regulatory hurdles for different reasons, all of which were ostensibly aimed at protecting consumers but might not have had the intended effects.

While millions of Americans have life insurance, millions more do not.

Life insurance was a lot easier to sell in the boom times of the mid- to late 1980s, and even into the ’90s, than it is today. 

The coverage gap is something that has been talked about in the life insurance industry for some time now, and while progress is being made in many areas here, most experts concede that it’s probably slower than anyone in the field would like.