Short explainer by Jayson Lowe answering whether one can hold multiple high cash value (participating whole life) insurance policies. The video’s main claim: yes — insurers limit total death benefit at risk for a single insured (illustrated with a $5,000,000 cap), so an owner may hold multiple contracts provided the aggregate death benefit stays within the carrier’s underwriting limit; the owner’s responsibility is to pay premiums and maintain the policies in force.
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Can you have more than one high cash value life insurance policy? The answer is a resounding yes. So it's not a function of the quantity of policies. If we were only dealing with one life insured, then the carrier is going to be agreeable to a maximum amount of death benefit at risk. So if we have a life insured, age 50, male, nonsmoker, applies for a dividend paying participating whole life insurance contract, high cash value life insurance, and the insurance company informs the advisor that they're willing to insure a maximum of $5 million of death benefit at risk. And the initial application would see the policy owner only purchasing a half million in starting death benefit, while that individual could easily pick up additional contracts. So now they have a quantity of policies and the insurance carrier is still within that net amount at risk that they're accurate agreeable to insuring that life. For because what we're dealing with is a contract and the insurance company itself is legally bound to fulfill the contractual guarantees, the policy owner's sole responsibility is to pay the premium. So the insurance company has to determine how much risk are we willing to essentially take on, given that it's a permanent policy and the payment of the death benefit is assured, provided that the policy is in force at the time that the life insured diesel, and so it's not based upon quantity more so than it's based on the total death benefit.
