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- How a life insurance examination can save your life
- Date posted: February 20th, 2012 5:05 AM
- Although life insurance deals with everyone’s final destination, there are cases where buying a policy has extended someone’s life by alerting them to an unknown medical problem. The most obvious example is basketball star Magic Johnson, who learned he was HIV positive after undergoing an extensive physical for a new life insurance policy. Another NBA player, Fred Hoiburg, had a life insurance exam that uncovered a heart deformity. It required open-heart surgery that ended his basketball career but probably saved his life.Full Story »
- Category: Featured Story, Life Insurance
- Can your killer commute increase your mortality rate?
- Date posted: February 16th, 2012 6:06 PM
- Americans must love to wile away the hours sitting in traffic, pounding their steering wheels and cursing out other drivers while inhaling the lovely aroma of car exhaust—at least judging by the amount of time we spend doing it.Full Story »
- Category: Featured Story, Life Insurance
- Getting engaged? Time to think about life insurance for two
- Date posted: February 14th, 2012 11:11 AM
- About 10 percent of the 2.3 million U.S. couples who will get engaged this year will do so on Valentine’s Day, according to the Diamond Information Center. If you’re among the lucky lovebirds, you’ll have plenty to do before you say “I do,” and that should include purchasing life insurance, insurance experts say.Full Story »
- Category: Featured Story, Life Insurance
- Missing records: When life insurance benefits go unpaid
- Date posted: January 30th, 2012 1:01 PM
- A series of multistate investigations into the insurance industry have revealed that life insurance companies are holding large amounts in unclaimed policies on their books that beneficiaries are likely unaware of. Kevin McCarty, Florida’s insurance commissioner, put the figure at somewhere “north of $1 billion.”Full Story »
- Category: Featured Story, Life Insurance
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