How do I find the best and least expensive term life insurance? I'd love to see a listing for life insurance like BankRate.com does for savings accounts and mortgage lenders. Anything like this out there?
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I used SelectQuote.com for my wife and I last year.
This is precisely what they offer to do.
warren
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The best way to get the best deal is to deal with an insurance broker. Not an agent. In the US at least, an agent is a representative of an insurance company. Their job is to get you to buy the company's products, not to find the best product for you. (They will sometimes say that they are going to find the best product for you, but they mean the best product from among their company's offerings).
In other places the naming is different. Sometimes agents are referred to as 'tied brokers', and can call themselves brokers. Brokers who find the best product for you from among many companies are usually called 'independent brokers'. If in any doubt you should always ask explicitly whether the broker is selling products from only a few companies or can choose between many companies. You will probably have to pay a broker for this advice, but that's what you need to guarantee independent advice.
You can also go to various websites that allow you to simultaneously get quotes from many insurance companies. They will often do the job if your needs are fairly straightforward, and you are looking for normal kinds of insurance.
DJClayworth
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Ask some insurance agents & brokers to provide you quotes of all the insurance companies, and then select the policy that best suits your needs.
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