Vegetarians Fed Life Insurance Carrot
SummaryAn interesting new insurance policy has been developed by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The insurance plan offers cheap premiums to vegetaria...
Summary
An interesting new insurance policy has been developed by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The insurance plan offers cheap premiums to vegetarians, based on evidence that they are at a lower risk than their carnivorous counterparts of developing certain medical conditions. It remains to be seen whether other insurers will follow AFI’s lead .
A no-profit insurance business has launched an insurance policy which offers egg eaters and vegetarians a reduced price mortgage insurance .
The offer, considered to be the first of its kind, is being marketed by Animal Friends Insurance (AFI). The firm is offering veggies a seven per cent price reductionon life insurance premiums
The firm claimed that veggies ought to pay a lesser cost for the cover, which pays out if the customer dies, because they were more unlikely to suffer from a list of chronic illnesses, including cancers.
Amanda Jude, A senior director at Animal Friends Insurance, claims that the risk of vegetarians being diagnosed with certain cancers is reduced by up to 42 per cent and the danger of them suffering from heart disease is lowered by up to thirty per cent, but despite this they have, until now, had to pay broadly identical insurance costs as people who eat meat.
She says that Animal Friends Insurance think that this is not fair and says the life organisations should recognise the concept that being a veggie can make have a significant effect on life expectancy and cut its monthly premiums accordingly.
A standard policy is also on the market for meat eaters. Both plans are marketed by LV=, which prior, was known as Liverpool Victoria.
In common with standard life insurance policies, a range of things contribute to the cost of the monthly premium including whether the applicant smokes, their weight, age and sex.
Just at the moment, AFI is carrying the seven per cent price reduction itself from the payment it gets from LV=. In the future, however, the firm’s objective was to offer lower premiums on specialist plans. In making the offer the business is hoping to sign up enough vegetarians to make it viable for LV= to underwrite another insurance plan that takes the veggie diet into account.
Indeed there are welcome savings to be made, a 38 year oldnon-smoker purchasing £300,000 worth of cover might potentially save £393.60 over a twenty year term.
Where life insurance quotes is concerned, AFI believes that insurance companies should start to treat those that like meat and people that don’t eat meat in a way that is similar to the way they approach non-smokers and smokers. We hope that that other companies in the insurance industry will do the same.
Some senior executivesin the insurance industry are dismissive that there is proof that vegetarians live longer, and how any insurer would know that those who had certified that they are vegetarian did not enjoy the occasional Big Mac.
When it comes to smoking, it’s true that there are your Doctor’s records - if you do smoke it’s possible that your Doctor would know. But this does not apply when it comes to eating meat, an insurance executive observed.
But some veggies contend that they are not worried about people falling off the vegetarian wagon and suggested that once a veggie has become a veggie, they don’t go back to meat-eating, unlike applicants who smoke who tend to drift out and back again into their old smoking ways.