ContentDesk) December 6, 2005 — A recent study showed that rates for individual term life insurance and permanent life insurance (whole life and universal life) will likely drop by 3 percent in 2006.This is because people are living longer (what the insurance business calls “mortality improvements) and also because of competition.One will be able to see these improvements instantly on the www.lifeinsure.com insurance quotes engine as these changes come about.Term life insurance rates have been in a downward trajectory for the last 20 years or so.

Over the last few years there have been other new factors introduced into the life insurance market besides the lowering of cost. For example, there are now universal life policies now that overcome a deficiency that used to exist in these kinds of policies - that, unlike whole life, they could lapse if interest rates fell or the cost of insurance increased. Now, universal life insurance can be guaranteed with a “rider” (extra) that guarantees that the universal life policy will last for a number of years or for life no matter what happens to interest rates.