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2. Insurance - Wikipedia

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   Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss. An entity which provides insurance is known as an ...

3. Life insurance in India - Wikipedia

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   Life insurance is one of the growing sectors in India since 2000 as Government allowed Private players and FDI up to 26% and recently Cabinet approved a proposal to increase it to 49%. In 1955, mean risk per policy of Indian and foreign life insurers amounted respectively to ₹2,950 & ₹7,859 [1] (worth ₹15 lakh & ₹41 lakh in 2017 prices).

4. History of insurance - Wikipedia

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   In the fifteenth century, word policy for insurance contract became standardized. By the sixteenth century, insurance was common among Britain, France, and the Netherlands. The concept of insuring outside native countries emerged in the seventeenth century due to reduced trade or higher cost of local insurance.

5. 'How is this legal?': A 72-year-old's life insurance policy ...

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   The percentage of Americans particularly with cash-value life insurance policies — which may include UL or whole life insurance — dropped to 20% in 2019 from 30% in 1998, reports Forbes Advisor.

6. Mortgage life insurance - Wikipedia

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   Mortgage life insurance is a form of insurance specifically designed to protect a repayment mortgage. If the policyholder were to die while the mortgage life insurance was in force, the policy would pay out a capital sum that will be just sufficient to repay the outstanding mortgage . Mortgage life insurance is supposed to protect the borrower ...

7. Variable universal life insurance - Wikipedia

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   Variable universal life is a type of permanent life insurance, because the death benefit will be paid if the insured dies at any time as long as there is sufficient cash value to pay the costs of insurance in the policy. With most if not all VULs, unlike whole life, there is no endowment age (the age at which the cash value equals the death ...