- Example: A parent assigns a life insurance policy to their child, giving them full control over the policy and its benefits.
Assignment of Benefits (AOB) is an agreement that transfers the insurance claims rights or benefits of the policy to a third party. An AOB gives the third party authority to file a claim, make repair decisions, and collect insurance payments without the involvement of the homeowner.
The insured needs to either endorse the policy document or make a deed of assignment and register the same with the insurer. A form prescribed by the insurers must be filled and signed. In case of conditional assignment, your reason needs to be mentioned as well.
For instance, a policy owner X wants to gift his life insurance policy to another person named Y. Hence X is doing absolute assignment. Here X is the assignor and Y is the assignee. Now all benefits, returns and even the liabilities are in the name of Y.
With an Assignment of Benefits, the third party, like a roofing company or plumber, files your claim, makes the repair decision and collects insurance payments without your involvement.
For example, if A contracts with B to teach B guitar for $50, A can assign this contract to C. That is, this assignment is both: (1) an assignment of A's rights under the contract to the $50; and (2) a delegation of A's duty to teach guitar to C.
In a life insurance assignment, a policy owner transfers his ownership rights of the policy to another party. The original owner is the assignor and the second party is the assignee.
WARNING! This form permanently transfers ownership of your FEGLI insurance to another individual, trustee, or corporation (however, premiums continue to be withheld from your salary/annuity). An assignment is irrevocable, and cannot be changed later.
In General. The assignment of an owner's policy means to assign the benefits of an already issued policy from the named insured to another party.
--(1) A transfer or assignment of a policy of insurance, wholly or in part, whether with or without consideration, may be made only by an endorsement upon the policy itself or by a separate instrument, signed in either case by the transferor or by the assignor or his duly authorised agent and attested by at least one ...