by Ed Hinerman | Jul 23, 2008 | AARP, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life
I recently applied for and received an AARP Group term life policy underwritten by New York Life. In previous posts I believe I’ve clearly made the point that these AARP offerings are a rip off of the sleaziest form, claiming to be advocates of the elderly while...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 22, 2008 | insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
If I’ve gone bonkers once, I’ve gone bonkers 100 times about agents that sell universal life and whole life policies based on current or assumed values and not based on guarantees. If you have a policy that was sold based on the assumption that a company...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 22, 2008 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Type 2 diabetes
When I was helping out after Hurricane Rita in Mississippi, I got to experience, first hand, southern hospitality and also the gateway to obesity, down home southern cooking. The only thing that saved me from coming back from that trip 25 pounds heavier was the fact...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 22, 2008 | insurance, life insurance
No! The question comes up all the time. Someone who has just completed an annual physical. A private pilot who recently did their regular flight exam. A CEO who gets semi-annual executive physicals at the Mayo Clinic. It really doesn’t matter what the scenario...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 21, 2008 | insurance, life insurance
Sounds like one of those reward programs that are promised with credit cards! “Earn extra life insurance miles!” I know I have claimed in previous posts that my health, as least mental health, benefits from an occasional escape to someplace other than my...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 21, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
We’ve blogged long and hard for years about the obesity epidemic in our country and the high cost the participants are paying in added health problems, shorter life spans and higher life insurance premiums. So, not that we had anything to do with it, but hats...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 21, 2008 | angioplasty, bypass surgery, coronary artery disease (CAD), heart attack, insurance, life insurance
One of the challenges we face each week is finding affordable life insurance for people who have suffered a heart attack, or have undergone angioplasty or heart bypass surgery after having chest discomfort due to blocked arteries. The good news! The folks we are...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 20, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
At least a dozen times a week I get an opportunity to review someone’s current and historical health with them. I’m on a fact finding mission with the goal of getting each person the best possible life insurance rates they can expect in their unique...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 17, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, life settlements
This is an area involving life insurance that is receiving more and more attention and a topic where the troops (life insurance agents) are definitely divided. A life settlement involves the sale of your policy to a third party. The third party takes over ownership,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 16, 2008 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
A question that comes up fairly frequently is whether a person who takes up a new hobby, not knitting, but something more daring like flying, skydiving or the like, needs to take out a new life insurance policy in order to be covered. This is a fair and prudent...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 15, 2008 | insurance, life insurance
Little did I know growing up that I was being raised by a woman of subtle, soft spoken genius. When I grew up and discovered that vegetables didn’t all come from a can, I was sure I had been short changed not only from a taste standpoint, but my long term health...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 15, 2008 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
We all have our way of doing things and I am convinced that there may be more than just a handful of people out there who disagree with me when it comes to how to handle life insurance in their lives, but bear with my bear analogy and see if there isn’t just a...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 12, 2008 | decline, epilepsy, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, seizure disorder
Whether it is epilepsy or another seizure disorder, the diagnosis is not necessarily a dead end for life insurance approvals. The key to approval and reasonable rates is control. Seizure disorder is another one of those life insurance issues that evokes a knee jerk...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 12, 2008 | bipolar disorder, decline, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
The amount of misinformation, or overblown information concerning bipolar disorder is troubling especially to those who are trying to overcome the stigma in their lives and in quests such as trying to apply for life insurance. Bipolar disorder, for many, conjures up...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 11, 2008 | cancer, insurance, life insurance
Eat your vegetables! They’re good for you!…….Yes Mom. Actually it didn’t come down quite like that for me. Most vegetables I grew up with were some strange strain that came in a can. A distinctly different species from what comes out of a...
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