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Lisa owns a busy and successful healthcare company, Health Inc. She started the business right out of nursing school all on her own, but recently has been working as the Chief Operating Officer in an office environment, with very little direct interaction with clients. Most of their sales and therefore profits come from their senior account manager, Leslie.
Because of her financial importance to the business, Lisa would like to place life insurance coverage on Leslie, owned by Health Inc.
In what scenario could Health Inc., as the applicant, take out a life policy on Leslie's life, even though she is not the owner?
Brian is a machinist. For the past seven years, he’s worked for a company that offers a group benefits plan. Under that plan, the premiums for long-term disability coverage are entirely paid by the employees. Last year, an injury forced Brian to stop working for eight months. After a four-month waiting period, during which he collected Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, Brian received long-term disability (LTD) benefits from the group plan’s insurer. Brian is now preparing his income tax return and wonders about the tax implications of the different benefits he received while on disability. What statement accurately describes the tax treatment of Brian’s EI and LTD benefits?
Surjit and Rajbir got married in 2010, and Surjit named Rajbir as the irrevocable beneficiary of his life insurance contract. In 2017, the couple divorced amicably, and Surjit met with his insurance representative, Ivan, to review his plans. Surjit tells Ivan that he would like to keep Rajbir as his beneficiary.
What should Ivan counsel his client to do?