Tax Planning
Arrangement of discretionary income, expenses, and investments in a way that enhances after-tax wealth. Insurance policies can be used to increase after-tax income through the tax-deferral features of cash value life insurance and to reduce estate taxes through the preferential tax treatment of the life insurance death benefit.
Popular Insurance Terms
Legal case in which the United States Supreme Court held that pension assets are to be excluded from the bankruptcy estate of the plan participant. ...
Trust that is established by people still alive. ...
Employer using a self-administered insurance plan; or an insurer that administers a group employee benefit plan. In an employer administered plan, the employer maintains all required ...
Policy designed to act as a supplement to Medicare. The supplementation is in the form of additional benefits to that provided by Medicare. The additional benefits are in the form of ...
New rule entitled "Employers Accounting for Postemployment Benefits," which requires advanced recognition of nonretirement benefits, health insurance continuation, and severance pay. ...
Statistical projection of future illness, sickness, and disease. ...
Rule for accounting for contingencies that has application for the accounting of liabilities under the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980 ...
Insurance contract under which a policy owner cannot be assessed for adverse loss and expense experience of the insurance company. ...
Liability incurred by one insured as the result of his or her damaging another insured when both insureds are covered under the same liability insurance policy. Each insured must be treated ...
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