95 million adults in the United States do not have any life insurance at all. That comes out to be about 41% of the US population.
Men: 61% have some kind of life insurance
Women: 57% have some kind of life insurance
Although 93% of Americans say that life insurance is something that most people need, 50% admit that they do not have adequate life insurance coverage. So how much do we need? Experts have said that we carry at least 10X your gross annual income in coverage. The main things we need to watch out for are heart disease, cancer, stroke, motor vehicle accident, suicide, falling, and firearm assault. Those are the leading cause of deaths in the US.
The two most commons kinds of life insurance are:
1. Term Life Insurance
2. Whole Life Insurance
We at Infographic Post are completely unbiased as far as the following carriers go. With that noted, here are some of the most popular and well known life insurance companies in the United States.
Assurity
American General
Genworth Financial
AXA
Aviva
BannerLife
Companion Life
American National
ING Direct
John Hancock
Linkcoln Financial Group
[Source: WholeTerm Life Insurance Quotes.org]
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