Life Insurance
- Provides payment upon insured's death
Life insurance is
any insurance relating to a risk depending on human life. This
includes contracts providing payment on the insured person's death,
endowments providing payment either on survival to a specified date
or on earlier death and annuities which are paid throughout the
annuitant's lifetime but cease on death.
Life license
candidates are provided with a course that covers term life
insurance, whole life insurance, universal life insurance, variable
life insurance, and annuities.
Disability Insurance
- Provides payments to disabled
insured
These policies
offer payments to employees who are (usually temporarily, rarely
permanently) unable to work because of any injury or illness, even
if it is not job-related. Unlike workers' compensation, this
coverage may not involve any aspect of health insurance, life
insurance, or payments for pain and suffering. Similarly to most
employer-supplied health insurance, these plans are essentially just
open-market plans with the advantage of a negotiated group rate.
That is, they are similar to what an individual would buy, but they
are purchased with a volume discount. Another general fact about
them is that they tend to offer rather basic, low-end coverage,
essentially because most people balk at paying for anything more.
Sometimes each employee has the option to buy upgraded coverage if
they are willing to pay for it.
Worker's
compensation (also known by variations of that name, e.g., workman's
comp, workmen's comp, worker's comp, compo) offers payments to
employees who are (usually temporarily, rarely permanently) unable
to work because of a job-related injury. However, workers'
compensation is in fact more than just income insurance, because it
may pay compensation for economic loss (past and future),
reimbursement or payment of medical and like expenses (functioning
in this case as a form of health insurance), general damages for
pain and suffering, and benefits payable to the dependents of
workers killed during employment (functioning in this case as a form
of life insurance).
Property & Casualty Insurance
- Coverage for property
damage and bodily injury
Property
insurance covers physical assets such as building, equipment,
furnishings, fixtures, and inventory. Casualty Insurance coverage is
primarily for the legal liability of a person (individual or
organization) that results from negligent acts and omissions causing
bodily injury and/or property damage to a third party. It protects a
property owner or other person from loss or injury sustained as a
result of theft, vandalism or similar occurrences. Property
insurance may cover aviation insurance, boiler and machinery
insurance, glass insurance and crime insurance.