LIFE SETTLEMENT GLOSSARY EXAMPLE
MALE - Age 69
$500,000 10 Year Level Term
- $1,985 Annual Premium
- $13,882 Conversion Annual Premium
Life Insurance Settlement Amount of $16,500
A retiree was about to drop his expiring term policy when he discovered it could be converted and sold using a life settlement.
As a result of the sale, he recovered most of the term premiums he had paid over the past ten years and used the proceeds to offset the cost of an extended tropical vacation.
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- occupational disease
- A condition or illness that was caused by factors in the workplace.
- offer
- The dollar amount and terms of an offer to purchase a life
insurance policy for a life settlement transaction.
- open competition states
- States where insurance companies may set new, reasonable, adequate
and non-discriminatory rates without prior approval subject to the
state's insurance commissioner approval.
- operating expenses
- The costs of maintaining a businesses property, insurance, real
estate taxes, utilities and rent, but excluding income tax,
depreciation and financing expenses.
- opportunity cost
- The cost of accepting one financial option over another choice.
- optional benefits
- Riders that can be added to a life insurance policy for additional
premium such as accidental death benefit and waiver of premium.
- option a, b and c (rop) death benefits
- Option A is the level death benefit option available on a universal
life policy which means the death benefit is always the same on an
unencumbered in force policy regardless of the policy cash value or the
premium payments made. Option B is the same as Option A, except the
cash value of the policy is paid at death along with the Option A
amount. Option C pays the Option A amount upon death plus the
cumulative value of all of the premiums paid since the inceptions of
the policy.
- ordinary life insurance
- Otherwise referred to as whole life insurance, a policy that is
designed to stay in force for a person's entire life span.
- original age conversion
- A life insurance conversion option that allows one form of
insurance (usually term) to be exchanged for another from of insurance
based on premium rates according to the age and risk class of the
original policy
- other insured rider
- A life insurance policy rider that allows additional insurance on
the life of a spouse and/or child of the primary insured.
- owner
- The individual or entity that holds all rights to a life insurance
policy.
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