Life insurance policies have a two year contestable period after which it is difficult for life insurance policies to be contested.

Even during the first two years, the life insurance company can only deny life insurance coverage for material misstatements (information that was withheld from, or misstated on, the application for life insurance that is serious enough that it would have caused the life insurance policy to be altered or denied when the insured applied for the li...

Yes, life insurance may pay out a death claim on an insured who died from an accidental overdose.

However, if the overdose is an illegal drug and you die within the first two years of being insured by your life insurance policy, there may be a problem. 

Every Life insurance application has a question regarding illegal drug use. 

If you answer "No" to that question, and then you die of an illegal drug overdose within the first two years of being insured, there is a contestable ...

Yes, Term life insurance can be converted to Whole life insurance or some other form of permanent life insurance if:

1) The life insurance policy has the option to be converted,

2) you convert the term life policy to permanent life insurance within the time frame required, and

3) you can afford the premium for the converted life insurance policy.

While a life insurance company may carry many types of permanent life insurance coverage, they do not always offer all of them to ...

According to the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), in 2008, the face amount of the average life insurance policy in the U.S. was $183,000.

In 2010, the face amount of the average life insurance policy was $165,000. So, over that two year period, the average amount of life insurance for a policy had decreased by $18,000 in life insurance coverage.

If a life insurance policy is Term insurance, there is no cash value worth to the policy itself, there is only life insura...