Life Insurance Settlements

Before discussing the benefits of life insurance payments, it is important to get a clear idea as to what life insurance settlements really are. Simply put, a life insurance settlement is the cash which is given to a policy holder in exchange of the ownership of the policy. One thing to be kept in mind in this regard is that the life insurance policy holder should not be terminally ill.

Insurance Settlements

Before understanding the concept of insurance settlements, it is important to understand the term structured settlements. Structured settlements are basically periodic payments made to a consumer as a result of a personal injury lawsuit.

Buyers of Structured Settlements

Structured settlements can be bought as an investment or provided as a compensatory payment to an injured party. Hence, these settlements can be used when receiving periodic payments or can sold either by parts or as a full settlement to raise a lump sum.

Viatical Settlements

The concept of viatical settlements works on the premise that a person with a terminal disease can sell his life insurance policy for less than the face value. The person can get lump sum cash and the buyer can collect the benefits of the policy after the original policyholder’s death. It sounds a bit grim but then there are always the harsh aspects of life. The longer the life expectancy, the less expensive the policy. But then life rarely follows a logical road and so the element of risk is there if the original policy holder’s life expectancy increases with the passage of time. It is after all a gamble on death. If the seller dies sooner than expected, you collect a higher return and on the other hand, if the person lives longer than expected, you will collect a lower benefit. Added to this is the fact that you can also end up losing your principal investment if the person lives long enough and you have to pay the additional premiums.

Viatical Settlement Companies

Death may be the only sure thing in life, and gambling on it may sound disconcerting to many. Viatical settlements involve selling the life insurance policy of a terminally ill person to a company who pays a lump sum cash amount in return for the policy. The companies buy the policy at a reduced rate of the face value, sometimes as much as 50% of the face value, and then collect the death benefits after the person’s demise. Morbid as they may sound, but viatical settlements can provide relief to terminally ill people whose life expectancy has been predicted to about two years or so.

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