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Term life insurance:
protect your family or your company

Family means love and care - also in financial matters. Life often takes unexpected turns. This makes it all the more important that your family is covered. With term life insurance, you can continue to pay the ongoing costs of housing, living expenses or education - no matter what happens. Simply take out this insurance with Zurich online or get individual advice.

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What is term life insurance?
In the event of a stroke of fate, term life insurance pays a predetermined sum to your partner, family or business partner. This means that no financial bottlenecks arise in the event of death and ongoing obligations can still be met.
Who is life insurance suitable for?
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Pour les familles et les couples
  • Les obligations financières de vous-même ou de vos proches peuvent être garanties.
  • Les survivants peuvent rester dans leur logement habituel, car les frais de logement restent abordables.  
  • L'avenir des enfants n'est pas compromis, car de l'argent est toujours disponible pour l'éducation.
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For homeowners
  • Mortgage costs remain affordable for the family.
  • Additional equity makes it easier to talk to the bank.
  • Ongoing maintenance and repairs are covered.
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For business partners
  • You can protect business partners financially, e.g. as a self-employed person.
  • You can secure your business loans.
  • You can prevent your company from becoming insolvent following a death.
How expensive is online whole life insurance?
Online death benefit insurance

The premium is CHF 134 in the first year*

Digital, inexpensive and can be taken out online immediately

  • Sum insured: CHF 50'000  bis CHF 500'0000
  • Type of benefit: constant death benefit
  • Term: renewable annually
  • Payment method: annually by credit card
  • Can be taken out in pillar 3b
  • Attractive premiums for non-smokers
  • Automated risk assessment without medical examination
Calculate your premium now *Please note that this is not a binding offer.
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Would you like customized death benefit insurance with personal advice?

Would you like personal advice and insurance that is tailored exactly to your needs and protects your loved ones? Contact us now - we will be happy to take the time for you.

Practical examples
Protecting the family home

The Müller family of four have just bought their dream home and have made major financial commitments. Their income is heavily dependent on Philipp Müller's full-time salary. That's why he takes out whole life insurance. When he dies two years later in a motorcycle accident, the family can stay in their home thanks to the capital paid out.

Insuring cohabiting partners

Sophie and Max live together without a marriage certificate. Because they are poorly insured by law, they protect each other with private death insurance. When Sophie is diagnosed with cancer, the insurance gives her peace of mind: Should the illness prove fatal, Max is at least well covered and can cope with the financial obligations on his own.

 
Insuring key people in SMEs

Markus Weber has founded a limited company and is its managing director. As the creative head of the company, he is an indispensable key person. When he suffers a heart attack, he thinks hard about his life. He is relieved that he took out death insurance when he founded the limited company. Thanks to the agreed capital, the company would still have a future without him.

Providing for loved ones

Maja and Jonas Eggenberger are very much looking forward to their first child. But serious complications arise during the birth and Maja dies. Jonas is left with the newborn. How can he look after the baby and earn a living for the family at the same time? Then he remembers that Maja has taken out a death benefit insurance policy. It will help him financially during the first difficult period.

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Taking out your death benefit insurance online is so easy

 

  1. Choose your protection
    Select the appropriate death benefit and enter your details.
  2. Deposit your credit card
    Easy payment by credit card.
  3. Covered from tomorrow
    Your cover starts the very next day.
  4. Adjust your cover
    If your life changes, you can adjust your insurance cover.

Information and frequently asked questions about death benefit insurance

Protection for family and business partners

  • Risk life insurance gives your family financial security
  • Cohabiting partners: close any insurance gaps as part of pillars 1 and 2
  • Protect business partners and make sure your business can survive
  • Ensure that your mortgage is paid off even after you die

You define the death benefits

  • Term life insurance with continuing benefit payments to meet continuing financial obligations (e.g. paying off a loan)
  • With the "LifeRisk" solution, you also have the option of a decreasing benefit to cover an obligation that is becoming smaller (e.g. the amortization of a mortgage)

Attractive discounts

  • Lower risk life insurance premiums for non-smokers. A person is considered to be a non-smoker if he/she smoked no cigartettes in the previous twelve months and if he/she consumes or uses a maximum of two cigars, pipes or other products containing nicotine per week. E-cigarettes are considered, in the context of these conditions, as are other products containing nicotine.

What is risk life insurance?

If the insured person dies, the beneficiaries of a risk life insurance, or term life insurance, receive a capital benefit. This can be used, for example, to cover life partners, who are less protected by the state than spouses. Families can prevent financial bottlenecks and, for example, ensure that they can stay in their own home, even after a stroke of fate.

Does Zurich offer risk life insurance?

Yes. With Zurich's "LifeRisk" term life insurance, you can freely choose the amount and duration of the risk cover and thus adapt it to your individual needs. In addition, Zurich offers a disability pension. This protects you against the financial consequences of disability and covers you if you are no longer able to work as before after an accident or illness. Our online product "LifeProtect direct" is a pure term life insurance solution that is easy to take out online, and which can be renewed annually.

Who can I name as beneficiary with a risk life insurance policy?

Within the framework of the unrestricted pension plan (pillar 3b), you can name anyone you wish to cover as a beneficiary, regardless of the legal succession. This can even be a life partner. In the case of restricted pension plan (pillar 3a), the beneficiary regulations are largely defined by law.

How can I protect my children with risk life insurance?

With risk life insurance, you can secure a lump-sum death benefit, which will be paid out if anything should happen to you. This way, you can protect your family and your children from the financial consequences of a stroke of fate and ensure, for example, that the family can remain in their accustomed surroundings.

What is disability insurance?

Disability insurance protects you and your family against the risk of loss of earnings if you are no longer able to work at all or only partially after an accident or due to illness. A pension is paid out, as a result of illness and/or accident, after an agreed waiting period.

Disability is deemed to exist if the insured person is temporarily or permanently no longer able to exercise his or her profession or another reasonable activity due to illness, an accident or infirmity. If the insured person becomes incapable of work during the agreed insurance term, the insurance company will pay the agreed disability pension in accordance with the contractual conditions.

How can I cover my spouse with term life insurance?

Whether benefits are paid from the first and/or second pillar after a death depends on various factors. Even if benefits are paid from both pillars, together they are usually noticeably lower than the previous income. With risk life insurance, you can close this gap – so that if the worst comes to the worst, you don't have to worry about money on top of the emotional pain. An individual consultation is worthwhile.

Why should I cover my life partner with a term life insurance?

If something should happen to you, your life partner has no legal claim to a share of your inheritance. Furthermore, he or she will not receive any benefits from the OASI. Even pension funds only pay benefits under certain circumstances. This makes it all the more important to take out private coverage in the form of a risk life insurance. 

How can I protect my home with a term life insurance?

If something should happen to you, your life partner has no legal claim to a share of your inheritance. Furthermore, he or she will not receive any benefits from the OASI. Even pension funds only pay benefits under certain circumstances. This makes it all the more important to take out private coverage in the form of a risk life insurance.