If Youre Not Vegetarian Dont Apply For This Life Insurance
November 30th, 2009 — 03:06 pmSummary
An innovative new product has been developed by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The new policy offers discounted premiums to vegetarians, based on evidence that they are at a lower risk than their meat-eating counterparts of developing certain diseases. It remains to be seen whether other insurance firms will follow the new policy marketed by Animal Friends Insurance .
A none profit insurance firm has launched a scheme which offers vegetarians and fish-eaters a reduced cost critical illness .
The offer, thought to be the 1st of its type, is being marketed by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The business is offering non-meat eaters a seven per cent cheaper premiumon life assurance premiums
The firm claimed that veggies ought to pay a lesser cost for the insurance, which pays out if the customer dies, because they were more unlikely to suffer from a range of chronic diseases, including some cancers.
Rebecca Puttey, the managing director of AFI, said that the risk of veggies being diagnosed with certain cancers is reduced by up to 40% and the danger of them suffering from heart disease is lowered by up to 30%, but despite this they have, until now, had to pay broadly the same insurance costs as clients who eat meat.
She says that Animal Friends Insurance believe this is unfair and says the life insurance industry should acknowledge the idea that being a vegetarian can create have a positive influence on life expectancy and lower its monthly charges accordingly.
A standard plan is also on the market for non-vegetarians. Both insurance policies are marketed by LV=, which prior, was known as Liverpool Victoria.
In common with normal life plans, a range of factors contribute to the cost of the monthly premium including whether the applicant smokes, their age, weight and sex.
Currently, Animal Friends Insurance is making the six per cent lower price itself from the money it earns from from LV=. In the future, however, the company’s objective was to offer lower premiums on specialist plans. In making the offer the business is hoping to sign up enough veggies to make it economically worthwhile for LV= to underwrite another insurance plan that takes the veggie diet into account.
Indeed there are huge savings to be made, a forty-year-oldnon-smoker purchasing £300,000 worth of life cover might potentially save £393.60 over a twenty year period.
Where critical illness is concerned, AFI thinks that life insurance companies should begin to treat those that like meat and people that don’t eat meat in ways that are similar to the way they view those that smoke and those that don’t. Perhaps other companies in the insurance industry will follow the initiative.
Some peoplein the insurance industry do not believe there is any proof that veggies live longer, and how any insurance company would know that those who had applied stating that they are veggies did not munch on an occasional bacon sandwich.
It’s true that when it comes to smoking there are GP records - if you do smoke it’s likely that your GP will be aware. However, this is unlikely to 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 way of eating and suggested that once a veggie has become a veggie, they don’t return to meat-eating, that’s unlike people who smoke who tend to drift out and back again into their habit.
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