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About rates and policy illustrations for life insurance
- Is there a written guarantee that the life insurance coverage is actually available to you exactly as per the product and price illustration/quotation?
- Make sure any guarantees which were on the sales illustration are not missing from the life insurance policy contract.
- Is the stated premium amount on the policy actually be an illustration or an advertisement or a guaranteed rate?
- Get a complete copy of your application and any additional completed forms (every page) before making any payment
- Compare the insurance legal documents (policy) to your original application.
- Is the life insurance market comparison 'surveys' based only on the initial term premium rate (Premiums may increase)?
- Has the agent used "Premium Offset" illustrations which promise a "quick-pay" arrangement where the policy will be "paid-up" early using "policy dividends" (Life insurance policy 'dividends' are usually not guaranteed)?
- Has the company used artificial, overly optimistic projections and assumptions of fund growth?
- Did the representative provide you with a comprehensive survey of policies offered by different insurance companies which takes into account the cost and net cost in the future (not just the initial or start-up premium)?
- Has the life insurance company used compouding dividends to project artificial, overly optimistic of cash values on 'participating' policies?
- Compare all sales material, illustrations, computer print-outs, etc. to the policy contract itself.
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