04.04.22

More Young Adults Are Buying Life Insurance Thanks to the Pandemic—if They Can Get It

by: Francesca Fontana

Applications for life-insurance policies jumped 3.9% year-over-year in 2020 in the United States, according to MIB Group’s Life Index. One source of the increased interest in life insurance was people whose jobs exposed them to COVID-19 before vaccines became available, says Jennifer Fitzgerald, CEO and co-founder of Policygenius. But the effects of the pandemic made many people of all kinds consider their mortality and re-evaluate their finances.

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