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Life Insurance - What Factors Affect your Rates
By John Craden
When it comes to life insurance, insurance providers take many things into consideration when coming up with life insurance rates. Life insurance providers are willing to reward you for being a low risk. To make things easier insurance providers hate having to lose money, as do any of us. Therefore if you show them that you are a high risk individual where more than likely they will have to end up losing money, they will penalize you with rates through the roof. It is important if you are looking to get the lowest life insurance rates possible that you understand what kind of factors the insurance providers look at when determining your rates. Smoking Smoking is by far one of the most important factors that insurance providers will look at. It is estimated that a non smoker will pay up to 60% less for insurance than a smoker will. If you decide to quit smoking it takes anywhere from 1-5 years of being smoke free before you will see any drop in your life insurance rates. Health Health is the next biggest factor that is considered when calculating your life insurance rates. If you are overweight, obese, have high blood pressure, low blood pressure, high cholesterol or any other major health concern your rates will go up. This is because these conditions will often cause other more serious conditions which makes you a higher risk for the insurance provider. Driving Record Insurance providers will often take a look at your driving record to see what kind of a driver you are. If you are someone who has a lead foot and has gotten many speeding tickets or have been in multiple car accidents you will find that your rates will go up a fair bit. Family History This unfortunately can be a curse that you cannot help, however the insurance provider will also check into your family's medical history and if they find that your family has a history of heart attacks, diabetes, strokes or any other major condition they will up your rates because you are more of a risk to them. These are the 4 major factors that insurance providers will look at when determining your rates, the amount that your rates will increase and the tolerances for each of these factors varies greatly depending on the insurance provider. In order to get the best coverage for the most affordable price it is important that you do you homework and shop around to all of the leading life insurance providers. This can easily be done online with the use of online insurance brokers. These brokers will provide you with a free quote from the leading insurance providers, and can help to save you up to 40% on your insurance rates. |
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