by Ed Hinerman | Feb 28, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
That used to be a quick and easy answer. The best life insurance rates were available only to the most experienced and trained pilots. For an airline pilot life insurance was no trick at all. For them they might as well have been a perfectly healthy car salesperson....
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2011 | guaranteed issue life insurance, insurance, life insurance, no exam, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance, term insurance, whole life
If an older person does a search for final expense life insurance, the typical policy that someone in their 60’s or 70’s might want, you could easily be led to believe that the only thing available is guaranteed issue or no exam life insurance (simplified...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2011 | Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance, stress
The diverse underwriting reaction to situational depression life insurance and situational anxiety life insurance is huge, with the same case ranging from declines to preferred rates depending on the company. Those of us who were around in the 50’s remember the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 24, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, senior life insurance
Don’t you just hate the fact that hindsight is 20/20 and when you look back with clear vision you see that you waltzed right past some of the deals of the decade? Hasn’t happened to you? YET! With very few exceptions people who look at conversion quotes on...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 22, 2011 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, senior life insurance
I was playing with my granddaughter over the weekend. There’s probably nothing she likes better than being chased and I forget how clumsy I can be. Anyway, I tripped a bruised a rib and as we all know there isn’t anything you can do about that except try...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 20, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
I bought my first life insurance policy when I was 33. I woke up one day with a wife and two stepchildren and realized that they were dependent on the fact that I made a pretty good income. Because we had become a family their standard of living had changed for the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 19, 2011 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
I Googled bipolar life insurance today and was struck by the lack of information on how to get approved for life insurance with bipolar disorder or any of the other mood disorders. Don’t get me wrong. There was plenty of information about bipolar disorder,...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 19, 2011 | Banner Life, conversion, insurance, life insurance, New York Life
In my zeal to trounce on life insurance companies that are doing wrong by their clients I mistakenly posted that Banner Life and American General do not offer a guaranteed permanent product for conversion for customers that have had a policy in force for more than 5...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2011 | buy/sell life insurance, insurance, life insurance
The best laid plans, right? “You know, we really ought to get a will done.” “You know, we really ought to figure out what happens to our two young children if we die in a car accident.” “You know partner, if you died tomorrow I...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, universal life
What is your definition of permanent! First thing that comes to mind for me is something that never goes away. OK. I know the earth could blow up and then all bets are off when it comes to anything attached to the earth, but let’s assume that it doesn’t...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 15, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
A long standing urban myth is that life insurance rates take a huge jump at age 50. Actually a spinoff of the myth for those in their 30’s is that it happens at 40, and for those in their 60’s at age 70, and so on. A little know fact is that under age 35...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, senior life insurance, term insurance, whole life
There is probably no age group market that is more sought after or more abused than the senior life insurance market. What a wake up call it was (several years ago) when I flew past 50 and started getting offers for life insurance for seniors. Being a life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2011 | final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance
Being over 50 myself I read that title and my mind immediately went to the thought that, “Well of course it has new meaning. We’re a lot closer to using it.” Whoa, admitted my own mortality there! But what I want to get at is the fact that the needs...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2011 | AIG, conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I’ve always been an advocate of buying a term life insurance length, or multiple term insurance policies that reflect your actual life insurance needs with different term lengths. Due to some recent changes in conversion options I am considering an amendment to...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, universal life
The life insurance industry made a big deal of the year 2000 and the impending monster changes in the term life insurance pricing that were just waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square. They even came up with a special name for the event, Triple X. The whole...
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