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Life and Disability Insurance

The Bureau of Insurance, a division of the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

 

National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The national organization of state insurance commissioners, a basic source of information.

Insurance Information Institute: An organization with the stated mission of improving the public's awareness of all forms of insurance. A large collection of resources, including an excellent, free home inventory program.

Life and Health Insurance Foundation For Education is a non-profit organziation formed by insurance groups to educate consumers. Provides straightforward basics on life and health insurance.

Insure.com: Multitude of articles and news reports coupled with interactive tools and quote search engine. Home page is heavy on promotion of insurance products.

Insurance.com: Explanatory articles, life insurance calculator and quote search engine. Somewhat cluttered.

Katt & Company: A national fee-only life insurance advisory firm provides an large collection of detailed articles on life insurance. Part of the site is aimed primarily at estate planning attorneys.

Glen Daily, a fee-only insurance consultant specializing in life insurance and annuities, speaks his mind. Independent, opinionated and controversial, Daily provides a perspective quite different from that held by most insurance agents. Worth looking at.

If you really want to understand how life insurance works, especially universal and variable universal life policies, you can't do any better than tackle Ben G. Baldwin's The New Life Insurance Investment Advisor. Baldwin, a highly respected practitioner and teacher, is an acclaimed expert in the field of life insurance. The book is extremely thorough but very readable

An academic paper Human Capital, Asset Allocation and Life Insurance views your career as a an asset with a unique mortality risk that impacts both your portfolio asset allocation and need for life insurance. There's lots of math but the paper merits skimming at least.

While we do not recommend any particular agent, we have had success using Tom Swank out of Myrtle Beach, SC to supply term life insurance.

 

 

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