Compensation Glossary
Welcome to ERI SalaryExpert's compensation glossary, your resource for commonly used terms, formulas, and phrases related to compensation.
Twisting
In life insurance, twisting is the act of inducing a policy owner, through misrepresentation or incomplete comparisons of the advantages and disadvantages of the two policies, to drop an existing policy in order to take a similar policy from the selling agent. Twisting is cause for license revocation in most states and is an offense that is against the law in many states.
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