We opted for term life insurance to keep costs low while providing coverage while the children are young.
term life insurance = life insurance coverage for a specific period of time
We're comparing term life insurance policies.
In the late 1990s, the price of term life insurance fell dramatically.†
(source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005
He would receive more than a thousand dollars for this day's work, and his family would receive an additional ten thousand dollars from the short-term life insurance should he not return.†
(source) Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain, 1969
For such websites, term life insurance was a perfect product.†
(source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005
Suddenly customers were paying $1 billion less a year for term life insurance.†
(source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005
Often, as in the case of term life insurance prices, the information existed but in a woefully scattered way.†
(source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005
Nor had there been any radical changes among insurance companies, insurance brokers, or the people who buy term life insurance.†
(source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005
In the spring of 1996, Quotesmith.com became the first of several websites that enabled a customer to compare, within seconds, the price of term life insurance sold by dozens of different companies.†
(source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005