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Term life insurance or term assurance is life insurance that provides coverage at a fixed rate of payments for a limited period of time, the relevant term. After that period expires, coverage at the previous rate of premiums is no longer guaranteed and the client must either forgo coverage or potentially obtain further coverage with different payments or conditions.
Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office, established in 1706, was the first life insurance company in the world.. An early form of life insurance dates to Ancient Rome; "burial clubs" [3] covered the cost of members' funeral expenses and assisted survivors financially.
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.
In insurance, the insurance policy is a contract (generally a standard form contract) between the insurer and the policyholder, which determines the claims which the insurer is legally required to pay.
Insurance in the United States refers to the market for risk in the United States, the world's largest insurance market by premium volume. [1] According to Swiss Re, of the $6.782 trillion of global direct premiums written worldwide in 2022, $2.959 trillion (43.6%) were written in the United States.
New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC) is the third-largest life insurance company [4] and the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States, [5] and is ranked #71 on the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations by total revenue. [6]
In the US many insurers offer a good-grade discount to students with a good academic record and resident-student discounts to those who live away from home. Generally insurance premiums tend to become lower at the age of 25. Some insurance companies offer "stand alone" car insurance policies specifically for teenagers with lower premiums.
Share of the Allianz Versicherungs-AG, issued 5 February 1890 An early Allianz agent's plaque. Allianz AG was founded in Munich in 1889, but started its activities in Berlin on 5 February 1890, by the then-director of the Munich Reinsurance Company Carl von Thieme (a native of Erfurt, whose father was the director of the Thuringia insurance company) and Wilhelm von Finck (co-owner of the Merck ...