If Youre Not Vegetarian Dont Apply For This Life Insurance
Monday, December 21st, 2009Summary
An interesting new insurance plan has been developed by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The new policy offers cheaper premiums to vegetarians, based on evidence that they are at a lower risk than their meat-eating counterparts of developing certain illnesses. It remains to be seen whether other insurers will follow the new policy marketed by Animal Friends Insurance .
A not for profit insurance firm has launched an insurance plan which offers egg eaters and vegetarians a reduced premium life insurance cover.
The offer, believed to be the 1st of its type, is being pioneered by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The firm is offering veggies a 6 per cent lower priceon mortgage protection premiums
The business said that vegetarians ought to pay less for the insurance, which pays out if the person dies, because they were less likely to suffer from a list of chronic illnesses, including some cancers.
Sheils Hatline, A senior director at Animal Friends Insurance, said that the danger of veggies being diagnosed with certain cancers is lowered by up to forty two per cent and the possibility of them suffering from heart disease is cut by up to thirty per cent, but despite this they have, until now, had to pay the same insurance premiums as plan holders who eat meat.
She says that AFI believe that this is not fair and says the insurance companies should recognise the idea that being a vegetarian can impose have a big influence on life expectancy and reduce its monthly charges accordingly.
A standard arrangement is also on the market for meat eaters. Both insurance plans are underwritten by LV=, which was known as Liverpool Victoria.
In common with standard life policies, a range of factors contribute to the cost of the policies including whether the applicant smokes, their sex, weight and age.
Just at the moment, Animal Friends Insurance is making the six per cent cheaper premium itself from the money it earns from from LV=. In the future, however, the firm’s objective was to offer lower costs on specialist plans. In offering the price reduction the business is hoping to sign up enough vegetarians to make it worthwhile for LV= to underwrite another insurance policy that takes the veggie diet into account.
Indeed there are worthwhile savings to be had, a 42-year-oldnon-smoker buying £300,000 worth of life insurance might potentially save £393.60 over a 20-year term.
Where life insurance quotes is concerned, AFI believes that insurance companies should start to treat those that like meat and people that don’t eat meat in ways that are similar to the way they approach smokers and non-smokers. Perhaps others in the insurance industry will take the same initiative.
Some senior executivesin the insurance industry do not believe there is robust proof that veggies live longer, and how any life insuranec company could prove that people who had certified that they are vegetarian did not savour the occasional rump steak.
When it comes to smoking, the insurance company can refer to your GP’s patient records - if you do smoke it’s likely that your GP would know. But this does not apply when it comes to eating meat, an executive from the insurance industry commented.
But some veggies contend that they are not worried about people falling off the veggie ways and suggested that once a vegetarian has become a veggie, they don’t go back to meat-eating, that’s unlike applicants who smoke who tend to drift out and back again into their old smoking ways.