Following the development of a series of concepts in economics , today we will talk about life insurance. This type of insurance are quite common among all of us, since it is used as indemnity coverage for beneficiaries in the event of death of the beneficiary or as collateral in some cases.
This type of insurance are regulated and covered by Law 50/1980 of contracts of insurance, the same being applicable or otherwise commercial legislation. A contract of life insurance to the different types of policies cover all the risks that may affect the life, physical integrity or health of the insured is defined.
The intrinsic feature of this contract is damages because the insurer undertakes, by charging the stipulated and within the limits established by law and the contract premium, to meet the beneficiary capital, income or other agreed services, in the case of death or survival of the insured, or both events together.
Such insurance can be done individually or collectively, as long as a group of people who are affected by the same risk is selected. A collectively, worth eg collective life insurance unit fire.
Contractual structure
The insurance contract contains the same elements as any other insurance contract. These are:
- Insurer: as a company that will provide the consideration in exchange for the premium.
- Policyholder: person who contracts the policy and assumes the payment of the premium.
- Insured: A person covered by the policy risks.
- Beneficiary: person who will be compensated with the consideration of insurance.
- Bonus: Amount payable by the policyholder to the insurer in return for hedging.
The legislation in our country obliges the express consent of the insured in the policy if the policyholder and insured are not the same person.
Another important detail about recipients is that these can be changed retrospectively formalization of the policy by the policyholder. This communication may be a certified notice of the policyholder to the insurer, or by inclusion in a will change beneficiaries on life insurance.
However, ITC has articulated a registry of beneficiaries of life insurance that existed for lack knowledge of the policies subscribed by policyholders and policyholders, giving the case of deaths have left unclaimed policies.
Conditions resolution
Life insurance can have fixed or indefinite period depending on the hedged risk and payment of the insured coverage. In the case of life insurance with periodic contributions, whether from the second year payment of premiums is suspended, the insurance contract can not be revoked, can only reduce the amount of premium and conditions thereof rescue .
Regarding insurance against death, excluded only those causes that are well covered by the insurance policy. In the case of willful death of the policyholder insurance beneficiary thereof, the assets of the insurance is integrated into the heritage of the insurer.
In the case of suicide, as most controversial case we have to know if the policy covers this death unless otherwise agreed in the insurance policy. It means suicide and voluntary death consciously produced by the insured.
The amount of premiums is very variable, since the amount will be determined by the type of feature that will receive along with the characteristics of the payment thereof. In this case, there are multiple combinations of both setup and receiving raw capital.
A couple of typical examples to finish. Death insurance premium determined single payment for one year. We pay a premium of 200 euros to cover the death of the insured for a year amounting to 100,000 euros. If the insured has not died at the end of the year, the policy ceases on arrival at maturity.
Capitalization insurance. We can establish a system of regular premium payments so that I reached the maturity of the policy or the death of the beneficiary receive capital with the capitalization of the same or guarantees established in the policy.
As we see, there are many variants of insurance as we can imagine múltimples configurations, so it is essential to read the scope of the policy very well and understand each of their points.
