Life Insurance
How Much Life Insurance Do I Need?
A popular approach to buying life insurance is based on income replacement. In this approach, a formula of between five and ten times your annual salary is often used to calculate how much life insurance coverage you need. Another approach is to purchase life insurance based on your individual needs and preferences. The first step is to determine your unique income replacement needs.
How Much Life Insurance Coverage Do You Need?
If you're going to buy life insurance, make sure you've got enough. There is no simple answer to how much coverage is enough. Some financial planners say you need enough life insurance to replace five to seven years of your salary. If you have young children or significant debt, you should bump up your coverage so you have enough to replace as much as 10 years of your salary, they say. That would mean a person making $50,000 a year should have anywhere from $250,000 to $500,000 worth of coverage or more.
House Prepared To Vote On Major Health Care Legislation
Some time ago the Republican ldrsho had already decided that they would oppose the requests being made by President Barack Obama for health care reform, requests that were being accepted by the Democrats. The issue of health care reform is expected to be a major factor in next year's congressional election campaigns.
Insurance against terrorism is hard to model
The threat of terrorism is vastly different from that of natural disasters because it presents too many uncertainties to be modeled to effectively anticipate frequency and potential levels of damage. TRIA, The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, is a US federal act signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 26, 2002. The Act created a federal "backstop" for insurance claims related to acts of terrorism. The Act is intended as a temporary measure to allow time for the insurance industry to develop their own solutions and products to insure against acts of terrorism.