by Ed Hinerman | Feb 28, 2012 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, decline, diabetes, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I got an email from a life insurance agent today asking me if I could recommend a guaranteed issue life insurance company in Massachusetts. He indicated that he had run into several clients that were uninsurable and wanted to find the best company to write graded...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 27, 2012 | disability, disability income, insurance, life insurance
I’ve been working with an oral surgeon recently on his life insurance and he asked about disability income also. He makes nearly $1 million a year, obviously very good at what he does. He’s part of a large dental group with 300 or so offices nationwide so...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2012 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, travel insurance
With the introduction several years ago of 30 year term insurance and no lapse guarantee universal life, which is essentially a term for life, some agents have lost sight of the fact that there are legitimate short term needs for life insurance. It wasn’t that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2012 | accelerated death benefit, conversion, customer service, guarantee, honesty, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
If good customer service cost less than bad customer service, which would you choose. Trick question, right? Let me qualify that question a little. If you knew ahead of time that you were making a major purchase that offered little or no customer service after the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 23, 2012 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
The way 99.9% of life insurance companies treat people with bipolar disorder drives me nuts. I’m not talking about an insurance company that fully underwrites an application and finds out something really sketchy in a person’s history. What slays me is...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 22, 2012 | heart attack, high blood pressure, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, obesity
I’m all for rounding off. I mean if I owed someone $9 and I had a ten in my wallet and they didn’t have change I would call it good. I know. I know. One of the reasons I’m not filthy rich or any other kind of rich. There is something of a rounding...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 20, 2012 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
I have decided to completely reverse my feeling about online mega agencies such as Selectquote and Accuquote. I have repeatedly inferred that they are the scum of the life insurance industry, that volume of business is more important than customer service, and that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 20, 2012 | Dave Ramsey, Depression, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
SAVE 70% ON LIFE INSURANCE. How often have we seen that little advertising flower bloom on our computer screens. I’ve explained in the past that there really isn’t any magic to that. The spread between the best priced life insurance companies and the worst...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 18, 2012 | cash value, Infinite banking, insurance quotes, life insurance, whole life
As promised I have been on a mission these past several months to prove the worth, or not, of the Infinite Banking system or the Be Your Own Banker concept, whichever title you subscribe to. I ordered and read my 5th edition “Becoming Your Own Banker” book...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 17, 2012 | accidental death, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, insurance, life insurance
I know there are agents that giggle all the way to the bank when they get an opportunity to sell a new policy and replace someone’s existing insurance, even though the existing insurance is still good for the client. I’ve had a lot of clients, or would be...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2012 | bipolar disorder, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, civilian contractors, disability income, insurance, prostate cancer
If you make $300,000 or less then this post is probably not for you, unless you can envision a time when your income is higher. Traditional disability income insurance will pay, at most, 65% of your income as a benefit, theoretically what you would net post taxes....
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2012 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, decline, Depression, insurance, life insurance, physicians life insurance
If it isn’t crystal clear by now, it should be. People applying for life insurance with a current or past history of well controlled depression, anxiety, ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder and other mood disorders are being abusively rated or declined by most life...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 15, 2012 | Anxiety, decline, insurance, life insurance
It’s no secret that by far the majority of my non private pilot clients have been declined for life insurance before they came to me. There is just something about being declined that is personal, a little humiliating, maybe scary and really ticks people off....
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2012 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
The dreaded elevated PSA! Life insurance underwriters treat a PSA out of the normal 0-4.0 range or a PSA that is higher than your last PSA with the life insurance equivalent of shutting all the hatches on a sinking ship. Even though there are no less than half a dozen...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 13, 2012 | accidental death, insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots, student pilot
There are plenty of people who took up flying as a hobby. What a great thing to be able to fly up to Wyoming and visit my mom or just fly around this beautiful country and, even better, the beautiful state of Colorado I live in. But for a lot of us that took a big hit...
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