{"id":519,"date":"2021-10-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2021-08-30T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:23:44","slug":"life-insurance-terms-everyone-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/life-insurance-terms-everyone-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Insurance Terms Everyone Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life insurance can be a confusing topic to figure out. Here are a few terms that will help you clearly speak the language of life insurance. For more details on these terms or on any other life insurance questions you have, trust the&nbsp;professionals at Cross Creek Insurance serving Hope Hills, NC to meet your needs.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Annuity<\/strong><\/em>: This pays out a fixed sum of money to the policyholder at regular intervals<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Beneficiary<\/strong><\/em>: The person or people are chosen by the policyholder to receive the proceeds from an insurance policy if the insured dies<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Death Benefit:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;Amount of money paid out to a beneficiary after the policyholder dies<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Evidence of Insurability<\/strong><\/em>: Documentation provided during the application process to prove the health of the insured person.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Face Value<\/strong><\/em>: This is the amount of money that will be paid out when the insured dies. For example, if the insured purchases a $100,000 policy, that is the amount that their beneficiaries will receive.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Insured<\/strong><\/em>: The person that benefits will be paid out for in the event of their death<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Life Insurance:<\/strong><\/em> When a policyholder pays premiums to an insurance company, and the insurance company agrees to pay the face value to the beneficiaries upon the insured&#8217;s death<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Living Benefits<\/strong><\/em>: Advance cash payment of part of a policy before the policyholder dies. Provides financial assistance to the insured&nbsp;before their death<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Policy Holder<\/strong><\/em>: The person who bought or owns the life insurance policy<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Term:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;The amount of time that the policyholder is insured<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Underwriter<\/strong><\/em>: The person or company that decides if a potential policyholder is insurable<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about life insurance or get a policy, contact the team at Cross Creek Insurance serving Hope Hills, NC today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life insurance can be a confusing topic to figure out. Here are a few terms that will help you clearly speak the language of life insurance. For more details on these terms or on any other life insurance questions you have, trust the&nbsp;professionals at Cross Creek Insurance serving Hope Hills, NC to meet your needs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[145,146],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance","tag-cross-creek-insurance","tag-hope-hills-nc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosscreekinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}