The most popular and reputable company
offering graded death benefit life insurance is Fidelity Life Association.
Not exact matches
These policies are
offered by Lincoln Financial Group (LifeElements), Protective
Life Insurance, and Fidelity
Life Association (
Graded Death Benefit).
That it's not all bad news when it comes to the
graded death benefit policies because in most cases, if an insured dies from «natural» causes during the
graded death benefit period, most guaranteed
life insurance policies (or at least the ones we
offer here at TermLife2Go) will have some «reimbursement program» whereby the insured's beneficiary will receive back some if not all of the premium payments that the insured paid plus some type of additional interest earns as well.
The main problems with these types of
life insurance policies however, is that they're not always
offered in every state and they will generally always contain what is called a
graded death benefit clause.
The companies
offering graded benefit life insurance designed the policies so that the company would be somewhat insulated from the inherent risk of the insured being moments away from
death.
(And here is where it makes sense for
insurance companies to be able to
offer guaranteed issue
life insurance policies), guaranteed issue
life insurance will contain what is called a
Graded Death Benefit.
The
graded death benefit is what allows
insurance companies to
offer a guaranteed issue
life insurance policy and it's also what makes
offering coverage to those who wouldn't otherwise be eligible now have a chance at purchasing coverage!
Without a
graded death benefit in place,
insurance companies would simply be unable to
offer guaranteed issue
life insurance policies simply because they would have no way of knowing if they were accepting
life insurance applications from individuals who were gravely ill.
Does the agent I'm working with
offer both types of burial
life insurance options, i.e. policies that contain a
graded death benefit and those that don't?
For example, a company like Gerber
Life Insurance will
offer a two year
graded death benefit where your premiums will be returned plus 10 %.
Graded Benefit Whole Life: These policies are like guaranteed issue life insurance and offer a death benefit of $ 25,000 o
Benefit Whole
Life: These policies are like guaranteed issue life insurance and offer a death benefit of $ 25,000 or l
Life: These policies are like guaranteed issue
life insurance and offer a death benefit of $ 25,000 or l
life insurance and
offer a
death benefit of $ 25,000 o
benefit of $ 25,000 or less.