How to Use term insurance in a Sentence

term insurance

noun
  • Under current rules, such short-term insurance cannot last for more than three months.
    Robert Pear, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Consider the state’s rule on short-term insurance plans.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Norton would offer short-term insurance and a cheap run-stopping option for the next four years.
    Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 14 Apr. 2018
  • And GE Capital is still burning through cash linked to its long-term insurance business.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Feb. 2020
  • But long-term insurance buyers turned out to be a more determined and farsighted group.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • The Obama administration ruled that short-term insurance may not last for more than three months; Trump wants to extend that to nearly a year.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The Obama administration ruled that short-term insurance may not last for more than three months; Trump will extend that to nearly a year.
    Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Officials plan to tighten the rules for private short-term insurance plans that are not required to cover a full set of benefits.
    New York Times, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Short-term insurance is supposed to provide just that — short-term coverage.
    Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The Administration has made much progress on health care with new and legally sound rules on short-term insurance and health reimbursements.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • Also, be aware that the long-term insurance industry itself is struggling.
    Nathan Bachrach, Cincinnati.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • At the end of the Obama administration, regulators cut the allowable length of short-term insurance from 12 months to three.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 2 Aug. 2018
  • More small businesses can now collectively purchase health care, and limits on short-term insurance plans will be rolled back as a result of the order.
    Aric Jenkins, Time, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Under the Obama administration, short-term insurance doesn't last for more than three months.
    Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Short-term insurance had long been defined, by states and the federal government, as coverage lasting less than 12 months.
    Robert Pear, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The administration is determined to open the gates wider to low-benefit plans that currently can be sold only as short-term insurance.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
  • The changes, which take effect in 2021, will affect the way companies value their long-term insurance contracts like life insurance, long-term care policies and annuities.
    Michael Rapoport, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2018
  • For that reason, people should carry a mix of term insurance to provide short-term coverage and permanent insurance for protection over the long haul.
    WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • First, the order is asking federal agencies to expand short-term insurance, which is meant to cover people who only expect to be without health care for a short period of time.
    Mattie Quinn, SELF, 13 Oct. 2017
  • In February, President Donald Trump eased some of the restrictions on short-term insurance plans, allowing them to cover people for 12 months instead of three.
    Rachel Bluth, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Short-term insurance is generally cheaper than regular insurance, though such plans do not have the same protections that ACA plans give consumers.
    Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 13 Dec. 2019
  • But there’s concern that encouraging the expansion of association health plans and short-term insurance could put the ACA markets on shaky ground by exempting more plans from the health law’s requirements.
    James Warren, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Pope, though, says that short-term insurance markets offer plans with different levels of quality, and consumers can choose those higher-quality plans.
    David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Also, premiums for cash-value policies tend to be much higher than premiums for the same amount of term insurance, which has a death benefit but no investment component.
    Liz Weston, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Included in the order, which was signed Thursday, is the expansion of the availability of short-term insurance policies and expand access to association health plans.
    Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But that would gut GE Capital’s revenues, a major risk if the lending division discloses more losses from its long-term insurance portfolio.
    Matt Wirz, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2019
  • California is one of a handful of states considering a bill that would effectively ban the short-term insurance plans proposed by the Trump administration.
    New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Short-term insurance plans have been growing in popularity.
    Aimee Picchi, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Learn about the various sources of money to fund appropriate care options, including, Medicare, Medicaid, long-term insurance, reverse mortgages, plus the types of in-home and out of home senior living options available and their cost.
    Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Needless to say, such additional long-term insurance comes at a higher cost, further pushing up the overall acquisition cost of sea-facing properties.
    Prashant Thakur, Quartz India, 12 Dec. 2019

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