Veggies Thrown Life Insurance Carrot
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Summary
An innovative new insurance plan has been developed by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The new policy offers lower premiums to vegetarians, based on evidence that they are at a reduced risk than their carnivorous counterparts of developing certain illnesses. It remains to be seen whether other insurers will follow the example set by AFI .
A none profit insurance firm has launched an insurance scheme which offers vegetarians and egg eaters a reduced cost cheapest life cover .
The offer, thought to be the first of its type, is being pioneered by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The firm is offering non-meat eaters a 6% discounton life cover premiums
The organisation claimed that veggies ought to pay a lesser sum for the product, which pays out if the customer were to die, because they were more unlikely to suffer from a range of very serious illnesses, including cancers.
Amanda Jude, the managing director of AFI, claims that the risk of vegetarians being diagnosed with certain cancers is reduced by up to 40% and the danger of them suffering from heart disease is cut by up to 30 per cent, but despite this they have, until now, had to pay the same life premiums as people who eat meat.
She says that Animal Friends Insurance think that this is not fair and says the life insurance industry should acknowledge the concept that being a veggie can impose have a big influence on life expectancy and lower its charges accordingly.
A normal arrangement is also on the market for meat eaters. Both plans are underwritten by LV=, which prior, was known as Liverpool Victoria.
In common with standard life insurance policies, a range of factors contribute to the cost of the premiums including whether the applicant smokes, their age, sex and weight.
At the moment, AFI is making the 7% reduction in price itself from the money it gets from LV=. In the future, however, the firm’s objective was to offer lower premiums on specialist plans. In offering the price reduction the company is hoping to sign up enough vegetarians to make it worthwhile for LV= to underwrite yet another insurance plan that takes the veggie diet into account.
Indeed there are big savings to be had, a thirty eight year oldnon-smoker purchasing £300,000 worth of cover might potentially save £393.60 over a twenty five year period.
Where critical illness is concerned, AFI believes that life insurance companies should begin to treat meat eaters and those that do not eat meat in a way that is similar to the way they assess those that don’t smoke and those that do. Hopefully others in the insurance industry will do the same.
It is thought that some executivesin the insurance industry are dismissive that there is verifyable proof that veggies live longer, and how any insurer could prove that people who had certified that they are veggies did not sometimes enjoy the odd lamb chop.
When it comes to smoking, the insurance company can refer to your Doctor’s records - if you do smoke it’s likely that your Doctor 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 vegetarian ways and suggested that once a vegetarian has become a veggie, they do not return to meat-eating, that’s unlike those that smoke who tend to drift out and back again into their old smoking ways.
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