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July 26, 2015

Deciding if you need Life Insurance?

Most people are aware of how life insurance works and what are the events and dangers that it is designed to protect against. They may also have family commitments and people who they provide for and know that some sort of life insurance would protect their family financially, if something were to happen to them. However, it is still often a very difficult decision to make if you are trying to decide whether or not you need life insurance.

Life insurance is a big commitment financially speaking. The premium can vary in cost but can be considerable, then there is also the issue that life insurance often extends over many years, even decades. This means that not only are you committing to pay the premium for this year, but also for many years into the future. There are not many people who can say with certainty what their earnings will be in ten or fifteen or twenty years time.

There are also early termination penalties, which means if you want to end the policy before the expiration of the entire term, you will be financially penalised. This is generally more relevant for life assurance but can also apply to life insurance if your rate has been calculated on the condition that you remain insured for so many years into the future.

If you have life assurance, then it will also be a method of saving for the future. This is a very popular concept, especially these days with the growing concern about the state of pension funds, but it again deserves careful consideration. There are many ways to save for the future, and by deciding to do so by way of a life assurance policy still entails deciding that life insurance is something that you want and are willing to pay for. If you do not need life insurance, then there are probably more efficient ways of saving for retirement than with life assurance, which places a proportion of your savings against the insurance aspect of the policy.

In general, most people will really only be considering life insurance if they have a family to support. This can be a spouse and generally children. However, situations frequently change, people get divorced, and children always grow up and become independent. If your family situation is likely to change, you should familiarise yourself with the ways you can end the policy early and what penalties would apply. However, if you have a young family and are concerned about their financial security for the future, then life insurance will be a great opportunity for you to provide for these concerns.

June 22, 2015

Cheap Medical Insurance

If you want to get a good deal on your medical insurance, there are a couple of things you should consider doing. Some of them are optional and some of them are absolutely vital and cannot be passed by.

The first is to shop around. You really cannot get a good deal on medical insurance unless you are prepared to shop around and search the market. Finding out what is available on the market really is the only way you can know if any particular offer is good or not and whether or not you should accept it. By getting to know what kind of offers are out there, you will know what you should be expecting to pay for what kind of benefits and are far less likely to get ripped off by making an uninformed decision on which medical insurance to buy.

You should also consider speaking to an insurance broker. These will be able to advise you on the plans offered by a wide range of insurers and let you know what kind of offers are available. Therefore, they can save you a lot of the legwork of shopping around since they have access to an array of insurance companies. They will also have access to preferential rates and deals since they can bargain with companies and use their knowledge of the industry to get good deals. They can then pass these savings on to you in some form or another.

However, even if you are going through a broker, you cannot forgo shopping around and informing yourself properly of what is on the market. This is because you will not be sure if the offer the broker is giving you is any better than that of other brokers or even of prices you can find your self.

Shopping online is another good idea. The Internet gives you access to virtually all the insurers in the market. They are right there at your fingertips and can often give you instant quotes right there on the website. This means that you can do a lot of shopping around and get a good idea of what is on the market just be going on line and visiting their websites.

Medical insurance is a very important purchase for you and your family. It can determine the level of health care and service you will have access to in the case of an accident or serious illness and also represents a significant cost to you when you pay your premiums. Therefore you should always shop the market and make sure you are getting as good a deal as possible before you commit to any one policy.

March 28, 2013

All insurance agents are the same (NOT!)

Insurance agents are all about the big sale. They want to sell you everything you don’t need so they can get a tidy check at the end of every month. All they care about is getting your money. These are all common sentiments when people discuss insurance. We have all heard the horror stories. On one h and, we have an uncle who was badgered so much by his insurance agent, he finally got sick and died with the exact same disease the agent told him would be covered if he bought the new policy. Luckily he had purchased the policy, so his untimely death was not in vain.

Insurance agents are often unscrupulous, trying to get clients to purchase more insurance than they really need at inflated prices. They talk so fast you would have to have bionic ears to decipher all the rhetoric they throw in. Most try and convince their intelligent clients they don’t underst and, but what they are actually doing is trying to confuse and manipulate the buyer. What they tend to forget is, most of their clients aren’t as dumb as they want them to be and will often wise up fairly quickly.

The fact is all insurance agents are not the same. A good life insurance agent will help you figure out what your family will need in case of an emergency and you are no longer there to provide for them. They will get you what you need without burying you financially. Some agents actually care and try to do the best by their clients.

March 14, 2013

All life insurance agents are the same (NOT!)

Everyone debates the issue of life insurance. Most agree they need it, but then again, who wants to deal with a pushy agent who is only interested in the sale? Agents like that have given insurance a bad name and caused many to go without it when they really needed to have it.

The main question is how do you find an agent who wants to sell a policy just because they know you are going to an eventually die. Believe it or not, good agents are out there. They exist and are not that hard to find, contrary to popular belief. All agents are not the same, in fact, some actually put their customer’s needs before their own.

If you are looking for a life insurance agent, set up a meeting. You will know within the first five minutes of eye contact whether or not they will be willing to help you get what you need. If they make sincere eye contact and actually listen to you when you tell them what you need, you might have picked a winner.

On the other h and, if you walk in and begin to talk less about how much insurance you need and more about how much the premiums will be, you might want to rethink your choice. Agents like that are normally the fast talking, shady type who look like their night job is working at a car lot that sells nothing but lemons and loose promises.

Follow your instinct and choose the agent that’s right for you. And remember, the ones who try to put you into an early grave with all their fast talk and confusion are probably not a good choice!

Deciding if you need Life Insurance?

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