Medical professional liability insurance is another name for medical malpractice insurance. There are two types of medical professional liability insurance, claims-made and occurrence policies. There are advantages and disadvantages to each of these types of policies.

Claims-made medical professional liability insurance policies are one year long policies that are renewed each year without interrupting the coverage. Any claims made during the claims-made policy period will be covered, no matter when the incidence actually occurred, as long as the incident occurred after the original purchase of the claims-made policy. This means coverage is retroactive back to the first policy. This type of medical professional liability insurance is cheaper in the first few years of coverage as it is less likely claims will be made in the first few years of coverage. Premiums increase each year up to five years, when the reach the approximate cost of the occurrence policies. Occurrence medical professional liability insurance covers all claims that occur during the coverage period, regardless of when the claim is made. Because there is no way of knowing how many claims will eventually be made due to actions occurring any given year, the premiums for occurrence medical professional liability insurance are not necessarily cheaper in the beginning like they are with claims-made medical professional liability policies. This type of insurance covers the doctor forever against claims that result from the period in which the policy was in effect. Both of these forms of medical professional liability insurance are very expensive, so there are currently a lot of organizations working on proposals to solve the problem of compensating any patients with legitimate medical malpractice claims without doctors having to pay huge premiums for medical professional liability insurance.

Life insurance is a type of insurance where in the insurance company provides insurance cover against the death of the insured. In life insurance there are 4 parties, the insured, the insurer, the owner of the policy and the beneficiary. On the death of the insured the beneficiary gets insurance proceeds from the life insurance company. The insurance proceeds are used to pay for death costs, funeral or are invested to provide an income to replace the deceased’s earnings. Other reasons for life insurance include retirement and estate planning

Term life insurance is a temporary type of life insurance. This provides cover for a limited period. This type has no cash value that is on the death of the insured; the beneficiary will get death benefits like funeral cost, death cost and replacement of wages of the insured. However if the insured does not die within the insurance period, the owner of the policy will get nothing in return that is there is no cash value. This is the cheapest of the life insurances. Term life insurance has given birth to the phrase “buy term and invest the difference”. That is buy a term life insurance rather than a permanent life insurance which is costlier and invest the difference between the permanent life insurance and the term life insurance to make profit. Term life insurance is considered profitable and cheap life insurance.