Life insurance policy provisions, options and riders
Using a class designation for beneficiaries means
Naming beneficiaries as a group
An insured will be allowed to reactivate her lapsed life insurance policy if action is taken within a certain period of time, and proof of insurability is provided. Which policy provision allows this?
Reinstatement provision
If a beneficiary wants a guarantee that benefits paid from principal and interest would be paid for a period of 10 years before being exhausted, what settlement option should the beneficiary select?
Fixed period
Which of the following is true about the 10-day free-look period in a life insurance policy?
It begins when the policy is delivered
Which of the following allows the insurer to relieve a minor insured from premium payments if the minor's parents have died or become disabled?
Payor benefit
When the policyowner specifies a dollar amount in which installments are to be paid, he/she has chosen which settlement option?
Fixed amount
The policyowner wants to make sure that upon his death, the life policy will pay a portion of the proceeds annually to his spouse, but that the principal will be paid to their children when they reach a certain age. Which settlement option should the policyowner choose?
Interest only option
When a life insurance policy stipulates that the beneficiary will receive payments in specified installments or for a specified number of years, what provision prevents the beneficiary from changing or borrowing from the planned installments?
Spendthrift provision
Which is not true about beneficiary designations?
The beneficiary must have insurable interest in the insured.
A father purchases a life insurance policy on his teenage daughter and adds the Payor Benefit rider. In which of the following scenarios will the rider waive the payment of premium?
if the father is disabled for more than 6 months
What is the waiting period on a waiver of premium rider in life insurance policies?
6 months
A business owner was trying to obtain a bank loan to fund the purchase of a new business facility, but the bank required proof of additional assets to secure the loan. The business owner. then decided to use her 250K life insurance policy to secure the loan. Which provision makes this possible?
Collateral assignment
What is the clause that describes the method of paying the death benefit in the event that the insured and beneficiary are both killed in the same accident?
Common disaster clause
When the insured selects the extended term nonforfeiture option, the cash value will be used to purchase term insurance with what face amount?
Equal to the original policy for as long as the cash values will purchase
Items stipulated in the contract that the insurer will not provide coverage for are found in the
Exclusions clause
An individual is purchasing a permanent life insurance policy with a face value of 25K. While this is all the insurance he can afford at this time, he wants to be sure that additional coverage will be available in the future. Which of the following options should be included in the policy?
Guaranteed insurability option
An insured as a life insurance policy from a participating company and receives quarterly dividends. He has instructed the company to apply the policy dividends to increase the death benefit. The dividend option that the insured has chosen is called?
Paid-Up additions
A provision in a life insurance policy that provides for the early payment of some portion of the face value should the insured suffer from terminal illness is called
Accelerated benefit provision
Which of the following is true regarding the spendthrift clause in life insurance policies?
It can protect the policy proceeds from creditors of the beneficiary
Which of the following is true of a children's rider added to an insured's permanent life insurance policy?
It is term coverage that is convertible to permanent insurance at or prior to the child reaching the maximum coverage age.
Upon the death of the insured, the primary beneficiary discovers that the insured chose the interest only settlement option. What does this mean?
The beneficiary will only receive payments of the interest earned on the death benefit
The rider in a whole life policy that allows the company to forgo collecting the premium if the insured is disabled is called
Waiver of premium
The two types of assignments are
absolute and collateral
A father owns a life insurance policy on his 15 year old daughter. The policy contains the optional Payor benefit rider. If the father becomes disabled, what will happen to the life insurance premiums?
the insured's premiums will be waived until she is 21
A long stretch of national economic hardship causes a 7% rate of inflation. Devonne notices that the face value of her life insurance policy has been raised 7% as a result. What is the name of the provision that caused this change?
Cost of living rider
If an insured under a variable life insurance policy dies, who will the insurer respond to the outstanding policy loans?
the loan amounts will be deducted from the death benefit
The insured under a $100,000 life insurance policy with a triple indemnity rider for accidental death was killed in a car accident. It was determined that the accident was his fault. The triple indemnity rider in the policy specifies that the death must not be contributed to by the insured in any manner. In this case, what will the policy beneficiary receive?
100K
A rider attached to a lie insurance policy that provides coverage on the insured's family members is called the
other insured rider
If a life policy allows the policyowner to make periodic additions to the face amount at standard rates, without proving insurability, the policy includes a
Guaranteed insurability rider
An insured purchased a life insurance policy on his life naming his wife as primary beneficiary, and his daughter as contingent beneficiary. Under what circumstances could the daughter collect the death benefit?
If the primary beneficiary predeceased the insured
An insured owns a $50,000 whole life policy. At age 47, the insured decides to cancel his policy and exercise the extended term option for the policy's cash value, which is currently $20,000. What would be the face amount of the new term policy?
50K
What limits the amount that a policyowner may borrow from a whole life insurance policy?
Cash value
If an insured continually uses the automatic premium loan option to pay the policy premium,
The policy will terminate when the cash value is reduced to nothing
Which of the following is true about a class designation?
Beneficiaries are not identified by name
The insured had his wife named as the beneficiary of his life insurance policy. To ensure that his wife had income for life after the insured's death, he chose the life income settlement option. The amount of payments will be determined by taking into account all of the following EXCEPT
The insured's age at death
An insured purchased a life policy in 2010 and died in 2017. The insurance company discovers at that time that the insured had misstaged information during the application process. What can they do?
Pay the death benefit
Nonforfeiture values guarantee which of the following for the policyowner?
The cash value will not be lost
When a life insurance policy was issued, the policyowner designated a primary and a contingent beneficiary. Several years later, both the insured and the primary beneficiary died in the same car accident, and it was impossible to determine who died first. which of the following would receive the death benefit?
The insured's contingent beneficiary
What type of account will most likely be established for a minor?
Trust