Nearly a third of U.S. households have no life-insurance coverage, the highest percentage in more than four decades, according to research firm Limra.
About 35 million U.S. households neither own their own life-insurance policies nor are covered under employer-sponsored plans, up from the 24 million, or 22% of households, without coverage in 2004...
The percentage without life insurance is a sign of the financial pressures on middle-income families as the economy struggles.
---Leslie Scism, WSJ
No comments:
Post a Comment