Who We Are
Life Happens is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Americans take personal financial responsibility through the ownership of life insurance and related products, including disability and long-term care insurance.
Life Happens also seeks to remind people of the important role insurance professionals perform in helping families, businesses, and individuals find the insurance products that best fit their needs. Life Happens does not endorse any product, company or insurance advisor. Its only interest is seeing that consumers get the coverage they need to protect themselves and their loved ones.
To educate the public, Life Happens employs a wide range of communications tactics including advertising, consumer-media outreach, educational programs in high schools and colleges, public-service announcements, informational flyers and videos, and a wide range of online and social-media communications. In addition, Life Happens coordinates three industry-wide awareness campaigns: Insure Your Love (observed in January/February) Life Insurance Awareness Month (observed in September) and Disability Insurance Awareness Month (observed in May). Life Happens developed the SaaS product Life Happens Pro to further its mission of educating the public by making its resources customizable and putting them directly into the hands of agents.
Life Happens was formed in 1994 (as the LIFE Foundation) by seven leading insurance producer organizations, which recognized the need to better educate the public about important insurance planning topics. To help Life Happens deliver its educational messages, it receives financial support from more than 140 of the nation’s leading insurance and financial services organizations.
Life Happens is governed by an 18-member Board of Directors, comprised of representatives from five of the industry’s leading producer organizations and eight of Life Happens’ member companies.