What Price Life?

March, 1981

Most people think it makes good sense to dicker with a car dealer to save a few hundred dollars on the purchase of a new car. Yet some of the same people pay no attention to differences in the price of life-insurance policies--differences that can add up to thousands of dollars over the years.The prices in this chart are for $100,000 of renewable term insurance bought by a 29-year-old man. Price quotations were obtained from 20 of the largest U. S. life-insurance companies (as measured by sales)...