Special Risk Life Insurance is an independent life insurance brokerage serving clients nationwide. We help individuals, families, and businesses compare coverage from multiple insurance companies, from straightforward life insurance needs to more complicated situations involving health conditions, higher-risk circumstances, or previous insurance challenges. While we have particular experience with high-risk and impaired-risk cases, we work with people across a wide range of health and financial circumstances. Our role is to understand what you’re trying to accomplish, compare the available options, and help you make an informed decision about the coverage that fits your situation.
Life Insurance Solutions for Different Situations
Life insurance needs aren’t all the same. We help people find coverage for a wide range of personal, family, business, health, and higher-risk situations.
Term Life Insurance
Protection for families, income replacement, mortgages, business needs, and other situations where coverage is needed for a specific period of time
Final Expense & Burial Insurance
Smaller life insurance policies designed to help cover funeral costs, burial expenses, and other final expenses.
Whole Life Insurance
Lifetime coverage with fixed premiums and cash value. Other permanent options include guaranteed universal life and indexed universal life, which have different features and flexibility.
High-Risk & Impaired Risk Life Insurance
Coverage for applicants whose health, lifestyle, occupation, driving history, previous declines, or other circumstances may require more specialized underwriting.
Access to Numerous Life Insurance Carriers
Because we’re independent, we’re not tied to one insurance company. We can compare available coverage from numerous carriers and look at how each company approaches your particular needs, health history, and goals.
Life Insurance for Every Situation
Whether you’re protecting your family, replacing income, covering a mortgage, protecting a business, or simply making sure your loved ones are financially secure, we help you compare life insurance options from numerous carriers.
Most applications are relatively straightforward. But when health conditions, tobacco use, hazardous occupations or hobbies, driving history, previous declines, or other underwriting concerns are involved, impaired-risk or high-risk life insurance may require a different approach. Our experience with these situations can be especially valuable when one insurance company may view your circumstances differently from another.
Straightforward or complicated, we’re here to help you find coverage that fits your situation.
Learn more about high-risk life insurance
Our Approach
“If we can’t help you, we sure aren’t going to hurt you.”
That principle has been part of how we approach life insurance from the beginning. Sometimes the right answer is to make a change. Sometimes it’s to keep what you already have. If your existing coverage is doing what you need it to do, we aren’t going to recommend replacing it simply because we could sell you something else. Our job is to help you understand your options and make a decision that’s in your best interest.
A Few Life Insurance Carriers We Work With
Serving Clients Nationwide
Special Risk Life Insurance is based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and serves clients nationwide by phone and Zoom. We also work with individuals and families throughout Southwest Michigan who prefer the option of working with a local life insurance agency. Whether you’re across the country or right here in Michigan, our approach is the same: understand your needs, compare available coverage, and help you make an informed decision.
Life Insurance Resources
Life insurance can raise a lot of questions, from understanding the different types of coverage to figuring out how much insurance you may need or what can affect your ability to qualify. Our resources explain life insurance topics in plain language, including coverage options, costs, underwriting, health conditions, and more complicated situations.
Types of Life Insurance
Understand term, whole life, universal life, final expense, and other types of life insurance, including how they differ and when each may make sense.
How Much Does Life Insurance Cost?
Learn what affects life insurance rates, why premiums vary between applicants, and how age, health, tobacco use, coverage amount, and other factors can affect what you pay.
How Life Insurance Underwriting Works
Learn what insurance companies consider when reviewing an application, including health history, medications, tobacco use, lifestyle, occupation, and other underwriting factors.
Life Insurance With Health Conditions
Health conditions don’t always prevent you from getting life insurance. Learn how medical history can affect eligibility, pricing, underwriting, and the types of coverage available.
Life Insurance After a Decline
Being declined by one insurance company doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t get coverage. Different insurers can evaluate the same health or lifestyle circumstances differently.
Questions to Ask Before Buying Life Insurance
Know what to ask about coverage, premiums, policy features, underwriting, and the insurance company before you apply.
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Special Risk Life Insurance is an independent insurance broker. All third-party logos, trademarks, and registered brand assets displayed on this site—including Pacific Life, Lincoln Financial, Banner Life, and other represented carriers—are the sole property of their respective corporate entities.
Banner Life Insurance Company and William Penn Life Insurance Company of New York (the Banner Life family of companies) are part of the Meiji Yasuda Group.
We are independently appointed to offer life insurance products from numerous insurance carriers. The appearance of these corporate names, logos, and brand assets illustrates some of the carrier options available to our clients and does not imply an exclusive partnership, direct employment, or corporate endorsement of Special Risk Life Insurance.