When a loved one dies and you know you’re the beneficiary of their life insurance policy, getting the payout is typically ...

Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a ...

Across the United States, billions of dollars in life insurance benefits are sitting in limbo because families never realize ...

Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a decade, ...

Learn how to calculate the face value of a life insurance policy and discover factors that might influence changes in this ...

Learn the ins and outs of collateral assignment in life insurance policies, how it secures loans, and what it means for your beneficiaries.

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Purchasing life insurance for a child can provide a safety net if the worst should happen, but it can also protect them well into adulthood. There are different plans that parents, grandparents or ...

MONTPELIER, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Life Group, one of the nation’s fastest growing group of life insurance companies, today enhanced its suite of industry-leading indexed universal life (IUL) ...