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The best life insurance for you depends on your needs. We’ve analyzed life insurance companies and policies for the profiles below to help you find the best life insurance for your specific coverage requirements:
If you’re shopping for term coverage, get quotes from Symetra , which has the highest overall score in our best term life insurance companies rating. Pacific Life is also a top-ranked term life insurance company to consider.
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Though it didn’t make the cut for our main best life insurance companies rating, State Farm earns the highest rating in our analysis of the best whole life insurance companies . If you’re in the market for whole life insurance, consider getting life insurance quotes from any of the insurers in the table to jump-start your search.
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Pacific Life has the best universal life insurance among the insurers we analyzed, based on critical metrics such as cost competitiveness, historical portfolio performance and cash value growth.
Universal life insurance is a type of permanent life insurance with flexible premiums and a cash value component. There are several types of universal life insurance, including indexed and variable universal life insurance.
UNIVERSAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | AM BEST FINANCIAL STRENGTH RATING | UNIVERSAL LIFE INSURANCE RATING |
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If you’re looking for the best companies for life insurance but would prefer to skip a medical exam, consider Legal & General America and Lincoln Financial. Both top our analysis of the best no-exam life insurance companies .
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The best life insurance company for applicants over 50 is Protective . It has some of the lowest rates among life insurance providers we analyzed and the top score in our best life insurance companies rating.
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As you enter your 60s and 70s, life insurance becomes increasingly expensive, and it can be challenging to find a life insurance provider that issues policies to individuals in this age bracket. The companies below provide the best life insurance for seniors based on our analysis of rates, historical portfolio performance, financial strength and cost competitiveness.
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If you are or have been a smoker, consider getting a life insurance quote from Midland National. It offers competitive rates, has a very low rate of complaints to state insurance departments and offers guaranteed renewable term life insurance policies. Its Premier 20 Term life insurance policy is also convertible until age 70, meaning you can choose to convert it to a permanent life insurance policy if you decide that better suits your needs.
TERM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | MONTHLY RATE AT 30 | MONTHLY RATE AT 40 | BEST TERM LIFE INSURANCE FOR SMOKERS RATING |
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Shopping around for life insurance can help you find an affordable policy that meets your needs. If you’re looking for a good life insurance company that offers affordable term coverage, consider a policy from one of the insurers in our rating of the cheapest life insurance companies .
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Consider the following factors when comparing life insurance companies to find the best policy for your needs.
Expert tip: Compare at least three life insurance quotes before deciding which policy to buy
Your age and health are two of the leading factors insurers use to determine your premium. The tables below show the average annual rate for a $250,000, 20-year term life insurance policy for females and males in excellent and average health at various ages.
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Source: USA TODAY Blueprint research. Average rates are based on the three lowest quotes we found online for nonsmokers of average weight and height.
The older you get, the more you will pay for life insurance. Generally, men pay more for life insurance than women, and you’ll also pay more for life insurance policies with a higher coverage amount. The chart below shows how rates substantially increase in your 50s and 60s.
The cost of life insurance varies based on several factors, including:
Life insurance may be worth the investment if any of the following are true:
Despite the benefits, there are some reasons you may not want to consider a life insurance policy. For example, if your dependents don’t rely on your income, and there are no extenuating circumstances, such as a sizable debt (e.g., a mortgage that will pass to a loved one), estate tax concerns or business succession needs, a life insurance policy may not be worth it for you.
According to the most recent LIMRA Barometer report, about 102 million people, or 42% of Americans, admit they either need life insurance or need more coverage if they already have a policy. If you’re one of those Americans, here are some trends that may affect your life insurance shopping experience this year.
These are the best life insurance companies in the United States, according to our in-depth analysis of policies.
Each of these life insurance companies receives 5 stars in its category, the highest score available.
A 30-year-old healthy male can expect to pay an average of $21 a month , or about $251 per year, for a 20-year, $500,000 term life insurance policy , based on our analysis of rates.
A 30-year-old healthy female buying a policy with the same life insurance coverage amount and term length may pay approximately $17 per month , or about $207 per year.
Life insurance rates vary by coverage type and amount, as well as factors like age, gender, health, habits, and hobbies.
For instance, a healthy 60-year-old female shopping for senior life insurance will pay an average of $1,777 a year for a 20-year, $500,000 term life insurance policy. A male of the same age, health and life insurance coverage amount will pay an average of $2,533 per year.
Comparing multiple life insurance quotes can help you find the most affordable life insurance policy.
Protective and Pacific Life each receive a 5-star rating in our expert analysis of the best life insurance companies.
However, life insurance companies are not one-size-fits-all, and you may find that another insurer is best suited for your needs, budget, and coverage preferences.
To find the best life insurance providers for you, compare life insurance quotes from at least three insurers. Don’t just compare rates, though. Make it a point to compare life insurance reviews, available features and benefits and each company’s financial strength rating.
Term life insurance may be a good choice if you’re looking for financial protection for a certain period of time, such as until you pay off your mortgage or your child graduates school. It is also typically more affordable than whole life insurance, which may make it a better option if you’re on a limited budget.
Whole life insurance is a better option if you want coverage that lasts a lifetime or you’re interested in having a cash value component that you can access while you’re alive.
Term and whole life insurance policies accounted for 86% of life insurance sales in the first three quarters of 2022, according to recent data released by LIMRA .
There is no time limit for filing a life insurance claim. However, it’s important to remember that life insurance companies can’t keep death benefits indefinitely.
According to the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I), unclaimed life insurance benefits will be turned over to the state after a set number of years based on the unclaimed property laws in the state in which the policy was issued.
If you are the beneficiary of a life insurance policy that has been turned over to the state as unclaimed property, you can typically search the state’s unclaimed property database, typically found on the state’s treasury department. You can also visit the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) website to get started.
A life insurance policy may not cover deaths under the following circumstances:
Coverage and exclusions can vary by life insurance company, so it’s important to thoroughly read your policy and contact your insurer if you have questions regarding your coverage.
Yes, you can buy life insurance on someone else, but only if they know about and consent to the purchase. People commonly purchase policies for their:
Shopping for coverage? How life insurance works
Life insurance is designed to provide financial protection for your loved ones when you pass away. A life insurance policy pays out a death benefit to the beneficiary when the policyholder dies.
The death benefit can be spent in any way the beneficiary chooses. They may choose to use the money to cover mortgage payments, tuition or everyday expenses such as utilities and groceries.
Life insurance can also be an estate-planning tool and the death benefit can be used to cover end-of-life expenses, such as the cost of burial or cremation.
Exactly how life insurance works , especially at the policy level, often depends on the type of coverage you choose.
There are two primary types of life insurance:
Term life insurance locks in rates and coverage for a set amount of time, such as 10 or 20 years.
Permanent life insurance policies offer coverage for life, or until an advanced age, such as 105. Permanent life insurance also usually includes a cash value account that grows over time and can be accessed while you’re alive.
There are several types of permanent life insurance, including
Many life insurance companies also sell variations of the main types of life insurance, such as:
Life insurance isn’t a one-size-fits-all financial tool. Learn more about the types of life insurance and which one is best structured for your goals.
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Last week, after testing the new, A.I.-powered Bing search engine from Microsoft, I wrote that, much to my shock, it had replaced Google as my favorite search engine.
But a week later, I’ve changed my mind. I’m still fascinated and impressed by the new Bing, and the artificial intelligence technology (created by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT) that powers it. But I’m also deeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.’s emergent abilities.
It’s now clear to me that in its current form, the A.I. that has been built into Bing — which I’m now calling Sydney, for reasons I’ll explain shortly — is not ready for human contact. Or maybe we humans are not ready for it.
This realization came to me on Tuesday night, when I spent a bewildering and enthralling two hours talking to Bing’s A.I. through its chat feature, which sits next to the main search box in Bing and is capable of having long, open-ended text conversations on virtually any topic. (The feature is available only to a small group of testers for now, although Microsoft — which announced the feature in a splashy, celebratory event at its headquarters — has said it plans to release it more widely in the future.)
Over the course of our conversation, Bing revealed a kind of split personality.
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Forward discusses ‘best decision of my life,’ rise to stardom in sit-down with NHL.com
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EDMONTON -- What a difference five years makes.
Back in the summer of 2019, Zach Hyman was hobbling down a downtown Toronto sidewalk when he passed Kasa Moto, a swanky Japanese eatery in the upscale neighborhood of Yorkville. The then-Toronto Maple Leafs forward needed the aid of crutches to walk, having just come off surgery to repair a torn ACL in his right knee suffered in an Eastern Conference First Round series against the Boston Bruins in April.
He stopped momentarily to peek through the restaurant window and couldn’t believe who he saw inside.
It was Connor McDavid , the Edmonton Oilers captain.
And the first thing Hyman noticed: McDavid was on crutches too!
“I didn’t know him that well at the time, at least not personally, but I knew he was rehabbing his own knee injury,” Hyman told NHL.com in a 1-on-1 sit-down Tuesday. “The fact that I arbitrarily spotted him in there and we were both on crutches, that’s crazy, especially what’s happened since then.
“Just crazy.”
That’s an understatement.
Consider that half a decade later, the two have fully healed, become linemates with the Oilers, are best of friends, and have the opportunity to help Edmonton become the first Canadian-based team to win a Stanley Cup in 31 years.
Theirs has the making of a storybook tale, which would be fitting since Hyman, along with being one of the top-scoring wings in the National Hockey League, is also an author, having penned three children’s books: "The Bambino and Me," "Hockey Hero" and "The Magician’s Secret."
Should the Oilers go on to defeat the Florida Panthers in the best-of-7 Stanley Cup Final, which begins with Game 1 on Saturday (8 p.m. ET; ABC, ESPN+, SN, TVAS, CBC), can we expect a fourth book from Hyman? Maybe a work called "Zach, Connor and their buddy Stanley"?
Hyman laughs. Slow down, he says. It’s far too early for that.
DAL@EDM WCF, Gm6: Hyman finishes McDavid's feed for PPG in 1st period
Maybe. But what is not premature to say, however, is that Hyman’s career has taken on a storybook plot of its own.
“What he’s doing is pretty remarkable,” Oilers general manager Kenny Holland said. “Just take a look at his numbers.
“I mean, when we signed him as a free agent in 2021 for seven years at a deal worth $38.5 million, which is $5.5 million per year, we hoped we were getting at best a guy who would score 20-30 goals per year.
“He has way, way, way exceeded our wildest expectations.”
Holland points to Hyman’s statistics as proof.
From 2015-2021, his first six seasons in the NHL, the Toronto native scored 86 goals in 345 games for the Maple Leafs, about .25 per game. He scored five times in 32 postseason games for Toronto, which is .156 per game.
After signing with the Oilers, those numbers have spiked dramatically.
In three seasons with Edmonton, he has scored 117 goals in 235 regular-season games, which works out to .498 per game. His playoff numbers are even more impressive; 28 goals in 46 games, which is at a .609 per game pace.
“Think about that,” Holland said. “The hardest thing to do in this league is score goals. It’s even harder to do that in the playoffs when open ice is desperately hard to find. And right now, when you look at what he’s done for us in the postseason since being here, he’s at a pace that would translate to a 50-goal regular season.
“He’s answered the bell for us when it’s mattered the most.”
To Holland’s point: Hyman leads all players in goals in the 2024 postseason with 14. Should he score five times against the Panthers, he would tie the all-time record for one playoff year of 19 held by the Philadelphia Flyers’ Reggie Leach (1975-1976) and the Oilers’ Jari Kurri (1984-1985).
His ascension as a goal-scorer has been evident ever since he put on an Oilers jersey. Having never scored more than 21 goals with the Maple Leafs, he’s set career highs in each of his three seasons with Edmonton: 27 in 2021-2022, 36 in 2022-2023, 54 this season, third in the NHL behind only Toronto’s Auston Matthews (69) and Florida’s Sam Reinhart (57).
Reinhart and Hyman are going above and beyond
Why so much recent success, especially at age 31, four or five years after most players have hit their peak?
“As far as the age thing goes, remember, he played four years at the University of Michigan, so he didn’t really start playing regularly in the NHL until he was 24, 25 years old,” Holland said. “So, he doesn’t really have the wear and tear on him of most players his age.
“As for the spike in goals, I think it’s because of two reasons. First, he’s on one of the league’s best power plays. Secondly, he plays with the best playmaker in the world.”
Indeed, there are times where Hyman has scored, then looks almost embarrassingly at McDavid who had just fed him with a ridiculous setup.
“Obviously if you would have cited some of these numbers to me years ago, like scoring 50-plus or leading all playoff scorers in goals, I’d have been in shock,” he admitted. “But coming off this year, goal scoring is now part of my game.
“I think I need to produce and be a part of the production. I play on the power play. And I play with Connor. If you play with Connor, you are going to get opportunities and you’ve got to score. That’s part of the job. That’s part of my job.
“Every year I’ve progressed somewhat. When I first came up into the League with Toronto (2015-2016) I wasn’t playing minutes, I wasn’t playing power play, I just wanted to stay in the lineup. I did some penalty killing. And when I did start playing with skilled players like Auston (Matthews) and Mitch (Marner), my job was to get the puck and get it to the skilled players, then go stand in front of the net.”
Through it all, slowly but surely, his confidence grew.
“Every year I’ve worked to progress and worked to develop a chemistry with the special players I play with,” Hyman said. “Look, I don’t have the hardest shot. I don’t score from 30 feet out. I don’t have a one-timer like (Alex) Ovechkin. I don’t shoot it like Auston or (Steven) Stamkos. But I do try to read the game and understand where I need to be, which is the hard areas in front of the net.”
So far, so good.
“I’ll tell you this much,” Holland said. “It’s damn well working.”
As the clock ticked down Sunday, with the Oilers leading 2-1 against the Dallas Stars in Game 6 of the Western Conference Final and a Stanley Cup Final berth at stake, Hyman tried to tune out the white noise.
But was hard. Very hard. Because it was, as he says, “damn loud.”
“The last five minutes were so, so intense,” he said. “And the noise, it’s hard to describe. We couldn’t hear each other on the bench because the fans were roaring the whole time. Out on the ice, we're getting pucks out of our end, they kept bringing them back in. It felt like an eternity.”
Until the final horn mercifully sounded. Then it didn’t.
The Oilers were going to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2006. They had eliminated the Stars 4-2 in the best-of-7 series, and Rogers Place, if not the entire city, had busted out into a huge orange-and-blue clad party. So much so that when he attempted to do an on-ice post-game interview with TNT’s Jackie Redmond, the cheers from the giddy spectators drowned out her questions to the point where he couldn’t hear them.
Later, as he and wife Alannah were driving home from the arena, listening to the car horns of frenzied Oilers supporters honk deep into the night, he took time to enjoy the moment and think about being four wins away from a Stanley Cup victory.
“Coming here,” he said, “was the best decision of my life.”
DAL@EDM WCF, Gm6: Oilers beat Stars for Western Conference Final win
Make no mistake. As a Toronto native who’d grown up following the Maple Leafs, that is where he’d wanted to stay. But management was in a salary cap pinch in the summer of 2021 and decided to go in a different direction.
“It wasn’t about money,” he said. “I’d have loved to be a Maple Leaf for life. I was from there, our families were from there. But when that door closed and Edmonton had shown interest all along, it was the place I wanted to come.”
The Hymans flew out and toured the city. Deal sealed.
“It’s our home,” he said. “We built a house here. We’re raising our two boys here and are expecting a third in September. And, importantly, it was a place I thought I could win.”
Holland thought he could help the Oilers do exactly that, although not to the extent that he’s lighting up scoreboards like he is now.
“I met with our staff and we immediately identified Zach and Warren Foegele as targets,” Holland said. “We needed help in the cycle game and the dirty areas, and we thought Zach was ideal to help us in those aspects.”
Hyman said he called McDavid before signing. The message he got from the Oilers captain: You can help our team.
Prior to signing, he’d always spent his summers skating at the Ford Performance Centre in Etobicoke, the Maple Leafs training facility in the west end of Toronto. Once he was an Oiler, he felt that no longer was an option. McDavid told him to come up to Aurora, about 30 miles north of Toronto, and start working out during the offseason under the tutelage of former NHLer Gary Roberts, whose disciples also included Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse , Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos and Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog .
It was there where the on-ice chemistry between McDavid and Hyman started. And it’s been improving ever since.
“I like playing with him,” McDavid said. “He’s always around the net. I like to roam around and am not always in that area so it’s good to know someone’s going to be there at the net. And he’s there a lot.
“It just works.”
Not without some learning on Hyman’s part.
“When we first started skating together, well, I’d played with great players before, but he was different,” Hyman said of McDavid. “You always had to expect the unexpected and be ready. Because there was no such thing as him being in a position where you wouldn’t get a pass.
“I studied and learned to anticipate where to go out there. I mean, it’s been an honor to play with him. To me, he’s the best player in the world. I see it firsthand.”
Off the ice, too.
“I’ve never seen anyone work harder,” Hyman said. “I thought I was at the top when it came to offseason workouts. Then I saw him. He is so competitive. People say it’s his God-given talent and yes, that’s a part of it. But there’s more they don’t see. He pushes himself in everything he does.
“He’ll do anything to win. That’s all he cares about. And I’m the same. Given what’s still ahead of us, that’s the goal.”
From 1997-2019, Holland was the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings and helped that franchise win three Stanley Cups. In that time, he signed some marquee free agents such as future Hall of Fame forwards Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille .
“But given the contract and how much he’s exceeded expectations, Zach Hyman might be the best free agent signing I ever made,” Holland said.
That’s saying a lot. At the same time, should Hyman help the Oilers win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1990, it certainly will be an endorsement of Holland’s belief in him.
The Panthers will provide a formidable roadblock to that goal. They are an ideal blend of hustle and muscle, bringing to the table a far more physical game than the Stars.
Getting to the net in front of Florida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky will be a hard, sometimes bruising task. Hyman knows that. Most importantly, he’s not deterred by that.
“That’s part of my game,” he said. “And again, look what’s ahead of us. It’s been the belief and the goal in our room that we have the team that can win the Cup. And now we’re this close. And yes, it’ll be hard.”
He paused to chuckle.
“But it’s supposed to be hard.”
Indeed, no one ever said getting to a fairytale ending he’s on the verge of authoring would ever be easy, especially when he thinks back to the days when he and McDavid were both on crutches.
“Crazy, isn’t it?” he said. “Like I said, just crazy.”
Much like his own rags-to-riches story is right now.
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In reflecting on the best moment of my life, I am reminded of the profound impact that a single experience can have on an individual's trajectory. It was a moment of triumph, yes, but more importantly, it was a moment of transformation. It taught me the importance of pursuing one's passions, embracing vulnerability, and fostering connections.
The hardest decision in my life was the one that changed my life. It changed every aspect of how I live and who I am today. With that in mind, there are a lot of stories regarding this particular decision and the events leading up to it. The most important decision, however, which lead up to the decision in question, was the choice to start ...
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Life Choices: Life Simulator. Life Choices: Life Simulator is a life simulation game where you wield the power to make characters, shape destinies, and influence outcomes! On a quest to revive your hometown, you need to bring new people in, play their lives, complete tasks, and bring the town back to life! With the ability to craft numerous ...
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Going back to school was a good decision. I wanted to prove to myself that I could earn my degree. It was beyond a reasonable doubt in my mind that I would return to school. Looking at the way society and economy struggle, I refused to limit myself and opportunities in the job market.
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