How Does Life Insurance Work?

How Does Life Insurance Work?

Life insurance is essentially a contract between the insured and the insurance company that pays out if the policyholder, the insured, dies. The life insurance money generally goes to a family member or beneficiary.
But, how can this even be profitable for the insurance company? Everyone dies, after all. Well, this all has to do with how the contracts are set up.

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50 Comments

  1. @nuggetsok4788 on February 25, 2025 at 10:45 pm

    What’s with the bell sound 😆

  2. @AMG_Bird on February 25, 2025 at 10:46 pm

    Thanks you for sharing 😊

  3. @wearanter1 on February 25, 2025 at 10:47 pm

    GONG!!

  4. @mirissaserrano3894 on February 25, 2025 at 10:48 pm

    The insurance industry will not pay anyone their death benefit if they received the shot. They say you committed suicide and wont pay.

  5. @MelB868 on February 25, 2025 at 10:53 pm

    Life insurance turned me down since I have Aspergers what’s wrong with those people it’s not like I’m going to die any day now 🤦‍♀️🙄

  6. @ianhendriks2090 on February 25, 2025 at 10:54 pm

    Why not just make payments to a investment account yourself instead of paying payments to an insurance company? Put that account in your will?

  7. @darrenmclaughlin3028 on February 25, 2025 at 10:54 pm

    40 leopold rd Felixstowe ip11 7 np flat 4/ Daniel Thurman. And his Chinese wife worked in life insurance and robbed a lot of her clients and gambled all the money / and transfers a lot of the cash to China / the money was never recovered / so be careful trust no one there people everywhere who shouldn’t of ever been employed ever

  8. @احمدوزيريمحمد on February 25, 2025 at 10:59 pm

    Fantastic

  9. @AimeeAimee444 on February 25, 2025 at 11:00 pm

    My sister passed, under questionable circumstances, 4 months prior to divorcing her mentally abusive husband.
    His father was two months away from passing, which he kept secret, and had a substantial amount of money going to him.
    His daughter is type 1 diabetic and had resources to fake a heart condition.
    At my sister’s funeral her daughter behaved as if it was a celebration; she finally had her father all to herself and wads of money.
    The morning of my sister’s passing they, husband and daughter, told my sister’s son to stay at home to watch the dog!?
    He would have fought for her to live. They were very close.
    Tell me why I shouldn’t find this suspicious. 🤬

  10. @treciaperry8067 on February 25, 2025 at 11:02 pm

    My ex physically poisoned me. I can handle that my life is in hands of fate but with my sums on table be is a chess game that willll never be a fair game

  11. @Harryjugad on February 25, 2025 at 11:02 pm

    Knowing that my parents are clueless about managing their finances and are most likely to have nothing to live on later in life, I took out a life insurance policy on myself so that if I can’t be around to pay for what they need, they’ll at least have some money to fall back on. It’s super frustrating though, trying to explain why certain financial decisions are bad for your parents only for them to use that ‘bad things won’t happen to us’ or ‘it’s fate if things don’t work out’ excuses to avoid taking a good look at the situation…

  12. @JimmySimmons-ci9qp on February 25, 2025 at 11:03 pm

    Great content

  13. @FinanceForAll23 on February 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm
  14. @TawhidIslamTas1 on February 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

    Great video

  15. @Harryjugad on February 25, 2025 at 11:05 pm

    Knowing that my parents are clueless about managing their finances and are most likely to have nothing to live on later in life, I took out a life insurance policy on myself so that if I can’t be around to pay for what they need, they’ll at least have some money to fall back on. It’s super frustrating though, trying to explain why certain financial decisions are bad for your parents only for them to use that ‘bad things won’t happen to us’ or ‘it’s fate if things don’t work out’ excuses to avoid taking a good look at the situation…

  16. @njlifeandhealth on February 25, 2025 at 11:06 pm

    Term life for the win! It’s a win-win for the insurance company and the policy holder. Whole life is sometimes good but Term is usually the way to go.

  17. @THEREALRUSSIAKID on February 25, 2025 at 11:06 pm

    I need life incurens bc haram anime dont wach it if your halal my man

  18. @FinanceForAll23 on February 25, 2025 at 11:06 pm
  19. @lastmover on February 25, 2025 at 11:07 pm

    Guardian Life Insurance – https://youtu.be/-3zAhzPABaI

  20. @miadahhajbi6442 on February 25, 2025 at 11:07 pm

    Ellen Taylor vampire stern family friends kids hunting everybody worldwide for gambling drinking drugging having fun stealing people body parts names DNA cloning killing everybody in the family to collect life insurance using their name. Wake up. People wake up if you think you’re smart. Think twice. Do not make life insurance

  21. @SannyLeom on February 25, 2025 at 11:07 pm

    thanks

  22. @LikkaVert on February 25, 2025 at 11:08 pm

    Everything is like everywhere else. God bless you

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  24. @christineabercrombie7316 on February 25, 2025 at 11:09 pm

    Is it legal to lie on underwriting in insurance. And is it legal to buy retirement accounts on April fool’s day? I have alot of questions about documents and alteration of data and signatures. In regards to mortgages and insurance

  25. @Trustamania on February 25, 2025 at 11:09 pm

    I have never put insurance on anyone I love because I feel like I’m jinxing them is it wrong to feel that way ??

  26. @JagatbahadurGurung-o1u on February 25, 2025 at 11:10 pm

    Good

  27. @TrueWealthFinancial on February 25, 2025 at 11:11 pm

    Thumbs up!

  28. @christineabercrombie7316 on February 25, 2025 at 11:12 pm

    How do people acquire so much property I really have done alot of thinking.

  29. @matthewcarello9280 on February 25, 2025 at 11:12 pm

    All you need to know is the majority do not pay out. In 2023 99% did not pay out. Mostly due to lack of payment. What happens when you get older or sick. You start missing payment on things. You get forgetulfull. It’s a total scam. In every way shape and form life insurance is a scam. Most likely you will be in a situation where you WILL miss a payment.

  30. @christineabercrombie7316 on February 25, 2025 at 11:13 pm

    Is it legal to take someone’s life insurance and tell the owner it’s cancelled? Is it ok to write insurance under another person’s name or agent number? Is it legal to collect renewals under the rightful agents client list?

  31. @Brosmit08 on February 25, 2025 at 11:14 pm

    Life insurance should be called “Death Ensurance”. Because that’s what it does. It ensures your death, rather than, insuring your life. There are no guarantees with this mess. Except for one-death.

  32. @OliviaRiola-jj5yb on February 25, 2025 at 11:15 pm

    Great video! 😊 I didn’t know much about life insurance before, but this explained it so well. Thank you! 🙏

  33. @1Maddd2mackxxx on February 25, 2025 at 11:16 pm

    I’m single 59 years old never been married, never had children
    I’d be crazy to get life insurance. The military will bury me
    Plus I never had a good lump sum of money my entire life
    So why in the hell would I want somebody else to enjoy what I wanted when I was alive
    when I’m dead???
    It doesn’t make sense
    Smmfh and Lmmmmaoff 😜😂😂😂😜

  34. @QuirkyGenius894 on February 25, 2025 at 11:21 pm

    Life insurance can be life changing if you find best tips before buying it 😊

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    The crypto market has been unfavorable for months and i keep losing my money selling off during dips, i’m very scared of holding right now. how do you guys still make so much ?

  36. @RyanPatrickOwens on February 25, 2025 at 11:22 pm

    Hey theres some misinformation in this video. Most importantly, in the section on permanent life insurance, you say that the company will pay out only if the insured is still paying premiums. Thats not true. It is incredibly common for a permanent policy to have a 10-year or 20-year pay period or even to take a single, lump sum premium payment. Additionally, you say that insurance companies sneakily add clauses to their policy contracts to get out of paying death benefits. First of all, insurance is a heavily regulated industry and it is a licensing requirement that agents inform clients of every standard clause within the contract; secondly, any additional, non-standard amendments (like exclusions) must be signed by the client at the time of policy delivery. Thirdly, those exclusions are part of the actuarial maths that determine premium; nobody is paying for protection that they should have but don’t.

  37. @theGrayArea2 on February 25, 2025 at 11:24 pm

    How did you figure out the insurance still makes a profit if they only paid 25% (24k) of policies during term, I must be doing some wrong math

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  39. @mudassarbhatti1021 on February 25, 2025 at 11:24 pm

    Good video

  40. @SabujMondal-x3c on February 25, 2025 at 11:25 pm

    very impressive.
    https://youtu.be/trrq68L6yV4

  41. @christineabercrombie7316 on February 25, 2025 at 11:27 pm

    Is it legal to attain the client list and computers of insurance agents to commit insurance crimes?

  42. @almalaika48 on February 25, 2025 at 11:28 pm

    As far as I know, you pay for 20 years for permanent life only, and it isn’t as long as you are a life. Because the insurance company makes money by investing your premium from day one, and still you will be insured until you die.

  43. @darrenmclaughlin3028 on February 25, 2025 at 11:29 pm

    Carole brooks flat 1 robbed a lot of peoples life insurance when she worked for in this work she has it stashed for a rainy day the elderly she robbed perished from shock /

  44. @AlphaPebley-dw4gp on February 25, 2025 at 11:30 pm

    🙄 Who cares about life insurance?

  45. @AdrienneHarris on February 25, 2025 at 11:33 pm

    Thank you very much so much for this video. It was very informative.

  46. @MaryHunt-s6i on February 25, 2025 at 11:33 pm

    It was very instructive

  47. @MsWinterlife on February 25, 2025 at 11:34 pm

    Knowing that my parents are clueless about managing their finances and are most likely to have nothing to live on later in life, I took out a life insurance policy on myself so that if I can’t be around to pay for what they need, they’ll at least have some money to fall back on. It’s super frustrating though, trying to explain why certain financial decisions are bad for your parents only for them to use that ‘bad things won’t happen to us’ or ‘it’s fate if things don’t work out’ excuses to avoid taking a good look at the situation…

  48. @jeryson-ye8nl on February 25, 2025 at 11:37 pm

    nice

  49. @thefrontdoor7643 on February 25, 2025 at 11:40 pm

    Hi! I sell life insurance. Reach out for a free quote. Protect you and your family.

  50. @ralphraanan1451 on February 25, 2025 at 11:42 pm

    What about cashing out life insurance afte 20 years how does it work

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