Q: How Do Agents Use Life Insurance Illustrations? How do Agents use these? It would be good to hear from agents. —  Richard Wicka, WI-Chair) 2018 12 – NAIC – Life Insurance Illustrations Issues Working Group 2017 – State Farm Agent Training / Van Mueller Approximately 2:11 – “I don’t ever use an illustration.”  See…

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Premiums and Benefits – Understanding Illustrations Ask your insurance agent, financial advisor, or an insurance company representative for an illustration showing future values and benefits. (p5) 2018 – NAIC Life Insurance Buyer’s Guide – 8p He <Birny Birnbaum> disagreed with Mr. Lovendusky <ACLI>  that an accompanying illustration would reduce the complexity of products for consumers. He said…

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Premiums and Benefits – Consumer Testing Focus Groups – NAIC – 2000s 1990-1A, NAIC Proceedings – NAIC / LIMRA – Universal Life Disclosure Form Focus Group Summary, Consumer Issues Disclosure Working Group – NAIC  —   [BonkNote]  —  10p With that in mind, we started by making a list of basic information about life insurance that…

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Premiums and Benefits – Expectations Mr. Birnbaum suggested that questions for consumer testing could come from the Assurity white paper, such as whether a consumer can reasonably be expected to understand the consequences of varying payment patterns after reading the summary. Ms.Winer asked if it would be useful to ask states whether they have received…

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Premiums, Costs, Benefits and Values – Reputational Risk We believe current illustrated rates are much higher than what is reasonably expected over the course of the policy and may lead to consumer disappointment, which could negatively impact the entire industry. —  Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York Life Insurance Company and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance…

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Premiums and Benefits – Consumer Reps 􀁸 How much do the benefits build up in the policy? 􀁸 How will the timing of money paid and received affect interest? 2018 – LIBGWG – Cude Letter / Markup Life Insurance Buyer’s Guide – Revised 2-9-18 for discussion on conference call 2-22-18 The personalized information in the…

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Premiums, Costs, Values and Benefits – Actuarial Universal life also allows for flexibility in policy benefits, not just premium payments. 2017 1115 – Letter – AAA to NAIC (LIBWG), American Academy of Actuaries – 2p The complications begin with a very simple question: What’s the premium for Universal Life? It could be almost anything. Then…

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Premiums and Benefits – Index ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ# B Benefits Benefits – Actuarial Benefits – Consumer Representatives Benefits – Index Benefits – Industry Groups Benefits – NAIC / Regulators BGA – Benefit Generating Account BGF – Benefit Generating Function Back to top C Coverage Period – Examples Back to top D Dynamic Back to top G Guaranteed…

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Premiums and Benefits – Regulators – History Section 8. Disclosure Requirements The main concern was that an unsophisticated buyer purchased a policy and did not know what the coverages, benefits and limitations were.  (2) adequate disclosure of the fact that a premium quoted will not support the contract for the whole life if the policy is…

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