Colonial Penn
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Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 based life insurance
Life insurance
Life insurance is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of the insured person. Depending on the contract, other events such as terminal illness or critical illness may also trigger...

 company owned by Conseco
Conseco
Conseco , originally Security Life of Indiana, is a financial services organization based in Carmel, Indiana. Conseco's insurance subsidiaries provide life insurance, annuity and supplemental health insurance products to more than 4 million customers in the United States...

. Colonial Penn's marketing campaign is aimed at people between the age of 50 and 85, specializing in Guaranteed Acceptance Whole Life Insurance. Acceptance with no medical exam or health questions is offered in $9.95 per month units (unit value is based on age and gender) or face amounts of $500 or $1000 increments. Other whole and term life insurances are offered as well.

However, most companies offering life and/or disability insurance medically underwrite these applications. To do this underwriters gather medical information obtained by Paramedical companies. Some of these US companies are Exam One, Hooper Holmes and AMS Screening /Affiliated Medical; a New York based company, These companies employ health professionals, such as RN's, Doctors, EMT's and Paramedics.

Some of these Paramedical Exam companies , such as AMS Screening / Affiliated Medical also provide on site mobile medical health screening ( ie; drug testing, health risk assessments and targeted wellness programs ) on employees of companies with locations nationally.

Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

host Alex Trebek
Alex Trebek
George Alexander "Alex" Trebek is a Canadian American game show host who has been the host of the game show Jeopardy! since 1984, and prior to that, he hosted game shows such as Pitfall and High Rollers. He has appeared in numerous television series, usually as himself...

 commonly appears as a compensated endorser for Colonial Penn advertisements.

Conseco
Conseco
Conseco , originally Security Life of Indiana, is a financial services organization based in Carmel, Indiana. Conseco's insurance subsidiaries provide life insurance, annuity and supplemental health insurance products to more than 4 million customers in the United States...

 bought Colonial Penn in the mid-90s, and in 1998 it was renamed Conseco Direct Life to reflect Conseco ownership. In 2001, the name was changed back to Colonial Penn, though, according to the fine print at the end of Colonial Penn commercials today, it is still Banker's Conseco Life Insurance Company for residents of New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

State.

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