What is life insurance Settlements?

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Life settlements are a vital development in the fact that they have introduced a secondary market for life insurance for seniors and younger people. Policy owners have easy access to fair market value for their policies, as opposed to accepting lower cash surrender value from the issuing company of life insurance settlements. A life insurance settlement is a financial transaction in which a policy owner has possession of any unnecessary or undesired life insurance policy which sells the insurance policy to a third party-seniors and younger people-for more than the cash value presented by the life insurance company. Customarily with life insurance settlement, the seller receives instant cash for the insurance policy from the appropriate purchasing entity. This normally becomes the new insurance policy beneficiary at maturation. Moreover, the seller is responsible for all the premium payments from the purchase of the life insurance settlement until the death of the seller.