by Ed Hinerman | May 16, 2017 | application process, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, Cannabis business life insurance, CEO life insurance, HIV business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
We’ve discussed at length (some would say ad nauseum) in this forum about the critical need for business life insurance for the key people in your company. The CEO having key person life insurance is going to be demanded by lenders as your business grows and...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 21, 2016 | application process, approval, decline, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Have you ever been declined for life insurance or been treated unfairly in the underwriting process. I’m not talking about being declined with stage 3 colon cancer or not getting the best rate class because you missed the height and weight guideline for that...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 19, 2016 | application process, approval, cigar smokers, clinical underwriting, height and weight, insurance, life insurance, mood disorder life insurance, prostate cancer, Prudential
I’ve mentioned probably more often than I’ve needed to that I shop even some of the simplest cases, probably every case that isn’t a slam dunk, no health issue, preferred plus. This makes sense for me and my clients because my clients will know ahead...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 3, 2016 | application process, guarantee, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, rate increase, retirement life insurance, term insurance, universal life
This is the 2015 version of the age old question, why term versus whole life? Some of the answers are the same and some are vastly different, I would say even dangerously different for those who are serious about their needs and just looking for the right product to...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 3, 2016 | application process, CEO life insurance, Ex Patriot life insurance, executives, Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, high net worth, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance
I’m considering Lasik surgery and as with all things medical in the US I was kind of ticked off when I saw the prices and then, how unpatriotic of me, compared them to a vacation to Costa Rica that happened to include the same medical procedure at a state of the...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 1, 2016 | application process, appropriate life insurance recommendation, bad customer service, customer service, insurance, life insurance
OK, let’s be real. This is not the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought. Cars and houses lead that category, but customer service after the sale for cars and real estate is distinctly lacking. It’s certainly not the most often used. Your...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 30, 2016 | application process, cancer, claim, contestability, contestability period, death benefit, grace period, heart attack, incontestability, insurance, life insurance
Part of being in the life insurance business, neck deep as I am, is the fact that sooner or later there are claims. If a life insurance agent sells a lot of products and a few of those are life insurance policies they might retire with only a claim or two to walk...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 19, 2016 | abnormal labs, application process, COPD, Hep C Cure, hepatitis, high net worth, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance
While it would be nice to think you could read headlines like, “New Drug Cure Hepatitis C Completely”, and know that the next headline coming would be, “Life Insurance Companies Give Best Rate Class To Those Cured Of Hep C”, don’t hold...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 15, 2016 | ACA, application process, Ex Patriot life insurance, Gap medical insurance, guaranteed issue medical insurance, insurance, international medical insurance, life insurance, medical insurance, missionaries
Now that we all know the truth about the Affordable Health Care Act, the Obama Doesn’t Care Act, it’s no wonder that far more people opted not to Act than to Act in this last year. There isn’t anything affordable about it and compared to the relatively minor tax hit,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 14, 2016 | application process, bad customer service, beneficiary, claim, contingent beneficiary, customer service, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
I’m not talking about setting your clock backward or forward. Sure not talking about your underwear cause I just don’t get that personal. What I’m talking about is changes to your life insurance. Did your child tick you off and you still have them as...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 11, 2016 | application process, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, cognitive understanding, contestability period, contractual understanding, insurable interest, insurance, life insurance
Over the years I’ve run into plenty of families who only wished their mom or dad still understood and qualified for life insurance. It would likely be a blessing to the family to have it in force, but there’s a point where the family has to admit they’ve missed that...
by Ed Hinerman | May 5, 2016 | application process, Ex Patriot life insurance, Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, insurance, life insurance
I went to a barn dance a lot of years ago and discovered that doing the two step isn’t necessarily all about rhythm and footwork, but also knowing which direction to go. If you aren’t shuffling your way around the dance floor counter clock wise, you are...
by Ed Hinerman | May 4, 2016 | application process, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
Until very recently we have had to go almost exclusively to Lloyds of London for Key person, CEO loan collateral and buy/sell funding business life insurance when the client was HIV positive. There’s no need to beat redundant to death by going over all of the...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 26, 2016 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Those of you who have read this journey with me know that it has been a decidedly unfriendly trip since, almost two years ago now, the first life insurance companies said they were ready to entertain the underwriting of traditional life insurance for well controlled...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 15, 2016 | application process, customer service, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
When I first got a taste of the insurance business I was 25 and got hired by Mutual of Omaha. Back in those days there was a real emphasis on training, some good and some not so good. After I started I spent two weeks all expense paid vacation (school) in Omaha and I...
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