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The accounting procedures for reinsurance are, as a report from the london school of economics put it in 1996, a mirror image of the accounting for the direct insurance. Universal life insurance ul is a hybrid life insurance policy which combines elements of term life insurance with an investment savings option. Instead this just leaves consumer more confused and more afraid of making the wrong decision in purchasing a life insurance product. Life insurance policies fall into two general categories.
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