Ernst & Young's Personal Financial Planning Guide
Top 10 mistakes you should avoid when looking for insurance:
- Knowingly underinsuring any major risk that you could cover inexpensively
- Naming minor children as beneficiaries of a life insurance
policy
- Using term insurance for permanent insurance needs
- Calculating life insurance needs by rules of thumb rather than by assessing your actual circumstances
- Generally overestimating coverage under Medicare
- Expecting Medicare to cover a sustained need for long term care
- Ignoring the need for disability insurance
- Carrying unrealistically low limits under your liability policies
- Carrying inadequate deductibles on property/casualty insurance
- Carrying collision coverage on an inexpensive automobile