by Ed Hinerman | Jul 19, 2007 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
If you are a Northwestern Mutual agent you are bred to believe that life insurance without cash value is, by it’s very nature, evil. Northwestern Mutual has term life insurance products, but they are priced so outrageously high as to lead the casual observer to...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 19, 2007 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, universal life
Every universal life policy sold, is sold as a permanent product. I don’t think there is anything left to the imagination when the word permanent is used. It should never go away. I can assure you that no agents sell universal life policies and tell you that the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 18, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
While there are plenty of you out there who paid too much for your life insurance and believe I meant to say “the staggering cost of life insurance”, I meant what I said and I would like to again discuss the idea of staggering or layering your term life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 18, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
Many companies and institutions offer retirement options that are based on how much you want guaranteed during your lifetime and how much you want to continue on to your spouse. Given good health and the proper use of life insurance, you can often have your cake and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 18, 2007 | Burial insurance, estate taxes, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance, universal life, whole life
Here’s where you can get a whole helping of my opinion that has grown and matured and reformed and settled since I sold my first whole life policies in 1978. Both whole life and universal life are meant to be permanent insurance. They are meant to be there until...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 18, 2007 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
Probably the most often asked question in life insurance. What is the difference between term and whole life? I will deal with whole life and universal life at another time, but let’s talk about term and what it’s really made to do. Term life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 17, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
The thought of a life insurance agent, for many, conjures up a picture of someone showing up at the house and sitting in the living room with you and very often using a flip chart type of graphic to drive home the point about why you need exactly what he came there to...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 16, 2007 | heart attack, heart disease, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity
The average person who purports to be a life insurance agent will a rather adverse reaction if you tell them you want life insurance and openly admit that you have heart disease. It doesn’t matter if you have just had minor blockage that was treated medically,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 16, 2007 | cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
The very thought of trying to find life insurance for someone who has had prostate cancer would send 98% of life insurance agents screaming into the dark. Most would just tell you, without asking any questions, that you are uninsurable. About 80% of prostate cancer...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 16, 2007 | diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, insurance quotes, obesity, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
If you have type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes and have shopped for life insurance, you more than likely ran into a few stumbling blocks, a few roadblocks and some outright dead ends. The real problem is that you probably ran into an agent who didn’t understand...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 13, 2007 | insurance, life insurance
1. Lie to the agent about a significant health issue! Life insurance companies are going to obtain your medical records and when they find out they’ve been lied to, they don’t want your business. 2. Don’t do what your doctor recommends! Your...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 12, 2007 | cholesterol, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Sleep apnea
The industry norm for underwriting sleep apnea has been the same for years until the Rock rocked the boat. Mild to moderate sleep apnea has historically been underwritten at a standard or possibly a standard plus rate depending on compliance with cpap use and a sleep...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 12, 2007 | arrythmia, atrial fibrillation, heart attack, heart disease, life insurance
According to the American Heart Association, about 2.2 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, a form of arrhythmia to some degree. It seems like this year about half of them have inquired about life insurance through our office. Like most health issues, life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 11, 2007 | heart attack, insurance, life insurance
If you’re looking for a fascinating read, try your own medical records sometime. It runs the gamut from comedy to mystery and there’s even parts of it that might fall into the non fiction class. Be prepared though. What you think you’ll find when you...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 6, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance
You ever wonder why life insurance companies are so tentative, so cautious when underwriting cancer cases? Ever wonder why doctors are so cautious about offering a prognosis on cancer? With as much research and study that has gone into cancer and treatment you would...
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