Helping My Parents Set Up Term Life Insurance
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Helping my parents set up a no medical term life insurance policy got me thinking that they should have done this a long time ago. According to my father, it was not as easy to set up any insurance policy as it is today. You used to have to rely on your insurance agent to do all the work and computers were not invented back then. Things were apparently simpler, but simpler did not mean that it was all that easy to understand for the normal Joe.
My mother told me that she had requested term life insurance rates several times from their agent and every time, it took him two to three weeks to get them to them. After receiving the term life insurance rates, they would then have to sit down and try and make sense of all the legal terms. It just seemed so confusing and not knowing what you are paying for, is just not something that most people would be comfortable doing.
So, when my parents found out that they could set up no medical term life insurance policies online and all the legal mumbo jumbo was spelled out in normal human terms, they were excited to do it. They still wanted me to look everything over but it was all legitimate.