by Ed Hinerman | Apr 8, 2019 | accidental death, Civilian War Zone Coverage, life insurance
I have a lot of civilian contractor clients working in the Middle East and African war zones. One just renewed his life insurance coverage another year and ran into an all too frequent problem. Working in a location devoid of printers or scanners, or in his case, ink,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 29, 2016 | accelerated death benefit, accidental death, acts of war or terrorism, dangerous occupation life insurance, foreign travel, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance, mountain climbing, student pilot
At first thought, accidental death insurance seems quite simplistic and obvious without the need for much explanation. But you know me. Why let something obvious go without an explanation. You might be surprised at the number of inquiries I get asking what exactly...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 16, 2016 | accidental death, business life insurance, disability, doctor's recommendation, Ex Patriot life insurance, foreign nationals, Gap medical insurance, Health insurance, insurance, medical insurance
Do we really want to even throw that question out there? How about we test out a few facts, throw some perspective on it and see how many of us want to move? The US spends more on health care than any other developed country….with worse outcomes! Well OK, but we...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 27, 2013 | AARP, accidental death, death benefit, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim
I’ve been careful about life insurance claim abuse cases I’ll help with only because, in most cases, the state insurance commissions are very good at putting things back on track and getting valid claims paid. But occasionally it will be something that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 26, 2013 | AARP, accidental death, death benefit, group life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance claim process, New York Life
Here we go again. I called New York Life this morning to see if I could be assigned a permanent contact to call when beneficiaries are getting the run around on death claims. I ended up talking to the executive assistant for NYL Executive Vice President Michael...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 26, 2012 | accidental death, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, contestability period, dangerous occupation life insurance, death benefit, group life insurance, insurance, life insurance, Lloyds of London
I took a call this morning that popped up a question for civilian contractors and workers in war zones that I had honestly not considered. The call was from a widow whose husband worked for a US company in Afghanistan and died while working there about six months ago...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 2, 2012 | accidental death, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, foreign nationals, High Limit AD and D, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance
I’ve brought this up in the past in response to a very real need with missionaries. Traditional life insurance isn’t horribly friendly to folks doing mission work outside of the country, a knee jerk reaction to the fact that there are some places in the...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 12, 2012 | accidental death, Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, decline, DUI, insurance, life insurance
There is this perverse notion, an urban legend if you will, that if you get declined for life insurance you become life insurance toast from then on. You might as well buy accidental death insurance and just hope that space junk and not cancer is the cause of your...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 30, 2012 | accidental death, climbing, life insurance, mountain climbing
Ahh, the dangerous hobby thing. When I was in my 20’s and 30’s and a bit into my 40’s and 50’s, we rock climbed, bouldered, and mountain climbed, rappelled off of anything that our rope would reach most of the way down and even did a Tyrolean...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 21, 2012 | accidental death, financial adviser, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
According to the US Census bureau about 2.5 million people die every year in the United States. That’s from all causes and all ages. Assuming all days are equal that means that about 6850 people die every day in our country. This is going to get a little deep...
by Ed Hinerman | May 2, 2012 | accidental death, Active Duty Military Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance claim, Lincoln National, Met Life
A colleague and I were bemoaning some of stranger than fiction nonsense that life insurance companies come up with. They always tout these things as the newest innovation to speed up underwriting, the best product idea since sliced bread, or they just leave it out...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 2, 2012 | accidental death, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, commercial fisherman life insurance, dangerous occupation life insurance, insurance, life insurance, Lloyds of London
It occurred to me as I was writing insurance on a civilian contractor working at a forward operating base in Afghanistan a few weeks ago that, that there must be others just like them. There must be other groups of people who could benefit from affordable dangerous...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 19, 2012 | accidental death, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, foreign travel, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
With the amount of business rolling in for people working in AFghanistan and Iraq as civilian contractors it seemed an appropriate time to take a look at some of the other worldwide dangerous occupations where people are not going to find off the shelf accidental...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 6, 2012 | accidental death, Active Duty Military Life Insurance, foreign travel, High Limit AD and D, insurance, life insurance, missionaries, professional car racing
We’ve talked a lot over the years about exclusions in life insurance policies. There’s the dark side which is mostly urban legend. The cases we’ve all heard about where, a claim is denied because a person died in a car accident after suffering a...
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...
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