Opinion: Have you ever wondered?
I remember the first time I heard a real, true to life claims story... there I was, dreading one of those awful staff meetings at one of my early jobs and we were asked for examples of how life insurance worked.
Well, a colleague piped up that when her Dad died there had been "all sorts of payments and stuff, and it paid for me to go to university, and Mum kept the house".
Wow. Didn't I feel small.
I had a prejudice against insurance and shed it quickly, hearing such stories. However, there is a school of thought that doubts insurance is useful.
One man I know who regularly talks with the bureaucrats in Wellington says they wonder whether life insurance is useful...MORE»
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