Even when offered life insurance, many employees don’t take advantage
Data over the last year-plus has repeatedly shown that the life insurance sector is getting back on track after some difficult years in the wake of the recession.
Veterans could face difficulties getting life insurance
Veterans with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder can face additional challenges in qualifying for life insurance.
Millennials turning around on life insurance as they age
During and even for years after the recession, it was very difficult to get people to buy life insurance.
Families crowdfund after deaths of uninsured kin
Polls show that while a lot of Americans don’t have life insurance, most understand that it has a significant value.
Genetic testing could create complications in the life insurance industry
Genetic testing may prove beneficial for the future health of some consumers, but unresolved issues with respect to genetic testing may prove a risk either to those consumers in applying for life insurance or to life insurers in underwriting the mortality risk of life insurance applicants.
What do people search for when they search for life insurance?
It’s only been in the last year or two that the life insurance market started to bounce back after a serious rough patch during and after the economic downturn.
Major insurer says it will extend life insurance to those with HIV
In years past, an HIV diagnosis was seen as a death sentence, and it immediately made life far more difficult for HIV-positive Americans in many ways.
Experts urge continued vigilance for life insurance buyers
One of the big issues in the life insurance industry as a whole over the last several years has been that consumers generally don’t have the firmest understanding of how such coverage works, what it should cost, and the like.
Some life insurers now raising rates on old policies
The life insurance industry has been having some difficulties with investment returns due to the low interest environment for quite a while now, shrinking the profitability present on existing insurance policies.
More data shows importance of having life insurance
Over the last few years, millions of Americans have highlighted a disconnect between consumers’ ideals of valuing life insurance overall, and actually having it.