At a glance
- NerdWallet ranking: No. 4 life insurance company.
- Customer satisfaction scores are about average.
- Offers a full menu of term and permanent life insurance.
Overview
Guardian Life Insurance Co. is a mutual insurance company, meaning it’s owned by its policyholders. Customers who buy whole life insurance can share in annual dividends. The company has paid a dividend every year since 1868, and in 2019 will pay a record dividend of $978 million to its policyholders.
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More about Guardian Life
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Guardian Life Insurance coverage options
Term life: Guardian offers policies with terms of 10, 15, 20 or 30 years. You can get an estimated quote for term life on the company’s website, but must contact a company advisor to buy a policy.
Permanent life: Guardian offers whole, universal and variable universal life insurance. In 2017 the company introduced a whole life survivorship policy called Guardian EstateGuard. Survivorship life insurance insures two people, typically a married couple, on one policy. The death benefit is paid to the beneficiary after the second person dies. With the EstateGuard policy, the cash value increases after the first person dies. Another unique feature is policyholders can add more coverage in the early years of the policy.
Guardian now offers whole life policies to healthy people living with HIV. To qualify, an applicant must be:
- Between ages 20 and 60.
- On highly active anti-retroviral therapy for two or more years with favorable lab results.
- Free of any AIDS-defining illnesses.
- Under the care of a doctor specializing in HIV.
