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Prudential life insurance now available to consumers with HIV

Julie Campbell
Life Insurance

The insurer has now opened up its 10 year and 15 year individual convertible term life products to these patients. Prudential has now announced that it will offer life insurance products to people who have been diagnosed with HIV, becoming the first major provider who is covering people who have received this diagnosis. The insurance policies are offered as a reflection of the longer, healthier lives HIV patients are living. The life insurance policies that are being offered to Prudential’s HIV positive customers include 10 year and 15 year convertible…

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Pennsylvania fines life insurance companies for partial benefits payments

Julie Campbell
Life Insurance Process

The state has been slapping insurers with penalties for failing to offer a full payout to beneficiaries. Pennsylvania has started implementing a crackdown on life insurance companies that have been discovered to be failing to pay out full benefits to the beneficiaries of policies soon after those policy owners have died. So far in 2015, the state has recovered $70.4 million for almost 4,300 beneficiaries in Pennsylvania. This is all a part of a broader effort by the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance, which involves a number of other states, as…

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Life insurance requirements are greatly underestimated by consumers

Julie Campbell
Life Insurance Over Age 50

According to recent research, the average policyholder should have $46,000 more coverage than they have. The majority of people who should be covered by a life insurance policy don’t even have one, but among those who do, the results of a recent study have suggested that they have typically underestimated the amount that they actually need. This means that if the worst should actually occur, the insurance payout may not be enough to cover beneficiary needs. SunLife recently conducted a study that has shown that the average payout from a…

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Life insurance industry growth in Singapore flattens

H. Cutner
life insurance plans

The results from the first quarter of this year have shown that the total weighted premiums stumbled by 1 percent. Life Insurance Association Singapore has released its data from the first quarter of 2015 and what it has shown is that the industry has experienced a flattened growth rate at the same time that its total weighted premiums fell by a small 1 percent when compared to the same quarter in 2014. When all was said and done, the total weighted life premiums in Q1 arrived at about US$488.68 million…

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Life insurance could become more affordable with a fitness tracker

Julie Campbell
fitbit fitness tracker health care life insurance technology

For the first time in the U.S., an insurer is using the same idea as pay as you drive coverage, but for a person’s health. A life insurance company in the United States is now offering a service that represents a first for the country, in which wearing a tracker that will reveal an individual’s health, location, and body information to reveal healthy lifestyle habits and reduced risk opportunities that could bring about a discount for premiums. While some are seeing this as an interesting opportunities, others are calling this…

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