Life insurance is a kind of life insurance with the life span of the insured as the subject matter and the life or death of the insured as the condition for paying insurance benefits. Life insurance is divided into: survival insurance, death insurance, endowment insurance, etc. New life insurance such as dividend insurance, universal insurance and investment-linked insurance also belong to life insurance.
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