Unlike traditional life insurance that provides a death benefit only in the event of the death of the life insurance policyholder, accidental death and dismemberment insurance provides additional coverage in the event the policyholder becomes permanently injured in a number of specific ways.

This type of policy traditionally pays a certain benefit for the loss of limbs, with a specific dollar figure assigned to each type of lost limb.

Many companies provide this type of cover...

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Life insurance pays the death benefit if the insured person passes away due to natural causes or accidental death during the period of time you are censured under the life insurance policy.

If you want the life insurance policy to pay out a double death benefit in case of accidental death and your policy does not do that as a feature of the policy, you may be able to purchase an accidental death rider.

That way if your death occurred due to an accident, the life insurance pol...

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Any accident that causes death would be consider accidental death.

An accident is an event which was unintended.

Whereas, life insurance covers death by old age, accident, or intentional death by suicide, if you have been insured for two or more years, one year in some states like Colorado.

Accidental death insurance covers only death resulting from an accident, and most policies require death to happen within a certain period of time of the accident, such as, 30 or 90 days, in order for the dea...
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Yes, life insurance does pay out a death benefit for death resulting from an accident.

Regular life insurance policies pay for death from natural causes and accidents.

Whereas, an accidental death life insurance policy will only pay out a death benefit if the insured person dies as a result of an accident.

However, acts of war and suicide are usually excluded from a regular life insurance policy. Suicide is excluded for a period of 1 or 2 years, depending on the state you live in.

In addition, yo...
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