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Are you Buying Your Life Insurance Policy Online?

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 19:29 | ralph

The internet is a great source of information when buying life insurance. Tools such as Instant Quote Calculators or Needs Analysis Calculators can be a great help. But looking for information and buying a life insurance policy are two very different things.

Here are some reasons for not buying a life insurance policy online:

Life insurance products should be looked at as a part of an overall financial portfolio, which is not possible to do when you purchase it directly via a website as a single product. When reviewing life insurance, careful planning should be put into consideration why the insurance is needed, how much is necessary and what's the optimum type of life insurance for a specific client.

Life insurance bought directly from a website is limited in its product selection.

When you purchase your insurance online, there is a danger that you might not fully understand all its characteristics. For instance some ten-year term policies are not renewable or convertible, or may have a higher than usual renewable premium, and so on.

Certain products are just too complicated to be sold online, and life insurance is one of these. There are too many details in some products that cannot be disclosed when the policy is purchased directly online.

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