life insurance

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noun

insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.

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Origin of life insurance

First recorded in 1800–10

Words nearby life insurance

Life Guards, lifehack, life history, life imprisonment, life instinct, life insurance, life interest, Life is short; art is long, life is too short, life jacket, lifeless

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How to use life insurance in a sentence

Founded in late 2020, Dayforward is currently licensed to sell life insurance in Texas with plans to expand nationwide over the next two years, with availability in new states every few months.
‘Crafting the brand’: How former Huge CEO is pivoting from agency background in service of DTC life insurance startup|Kimeko McCoy|February 3, 2021|Digiday
No other material has the ability to reflect body heat so efficiently, and because life insurance never came at such a minimum weight and low price, the space blanket rapidly became a staple in nearly every outdoorsman’s pack.
The life-saving space blanket has humble origins|By Keith McCafferty/Field & Stream|January 21, 2021|Popular-Science
JaMarcus, like all dialysis patients, didn’t qualify for a traditional life insurance policy, and Gail didn’t have a job.
For Years, JaMarcus Crews Tried to Get a New Kidney, but Corporate Healthcare Stood in the Way|by Lizzie Presser|December 15, 2020|ProPublica
“You’d be surprised how hard it is to give away life insurance,” he said.
MassMutual is offering free life insurance policies to frontline health care workers|Alan Murray|October 9, 2020|Fortune

Current challenges include launching an all-risk insurance product for township businesses, working out how to add a life insurance component to existing offerings and securing the funding to fuel the rapid expansion that Kubheka dreams of.
An Insurance Solution for the World’s Poorest|Daniel Malloy|September 21, 2020|Ozy
One began this way: “I'm currently worth more dead (with my life insurance policy) than alive (with my student loan debt).”
The Exciting-but-Depressing Obama-Tumblr Student-Loan Summit|Kelly Williams Brown|June 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This toll was particularly painful for the nascent life insurance industry.
When TB Was a Death Sentence: An Excerpt From ‘The Remedy’|Thomas Goetz|April 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It boasts extremely low cost ratios and offers low-cost financial products like life insurance.
Roger Ferguson Is Wall Street’s Fantasy for Federal Reserve Chairman|Daniel Gross|September 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
According to a memo, the “full suite” of benefits also includes access to a discount card and spouse/partner life insurance.
Walmart’s New Embrace of Gay Employees a Sign of Corporate Shift|Daniel Gross|August 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Insurers have been doing this for centuries in underwriting health, auto, home and life insurance.
Should People Be Forced to Buy Liability Insurance for their Guns?|Megan McArdle|December 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Some states have enacted statutes prescribing requirements for life insurance policies, or standard forms.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
In mutual life insurance companies a portion of the premium is often paid in this manner.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Look here, Andrew Kelton, if you mention that life insurance to me again, I'll cut your acquaintance.
A Hoosier Chronicle|Meredith Nicholson
The Professor had been obliged to drop part of his life insurance and there was only two thousand in force when he died.
A Hoosier Chronicle|Meredith Nicholson
If some member of a family has a life insurance, a definite premium will have to be paid at definite times.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping|Elizabeth Hale Gilman

British Dictionary definitions for life insurance

life insurance

noun

another name for life assurance

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