Why Can’t I Exclude My Heart From My Life Insurance Policy?

by | Mar 18, 2015 | application process, approval, business life insurance, cancer, conversion, coronary artery disease (CAD), decline, exclusions, guaranteed level premium, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval

A client I’m working with is getting a little frustrated because, in order to keep his obligations, he is going to have to convert a current term policy coming to the end of its’ guaranteed level premium period. When I say he is going to have to do this...

OK! Let’s Try This The Old Fashioned Way!

by | Mar 12, 2015 | approval, assumptions, budget, cash value, conversion, Conversion to a permanent product, death benefit, guarantee, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, no lapse guarantee, rate increase, term insurance, universal life, whole life

I think I’m finally coming to grips with the fact that the life insurance learning curve isn’t really a curve. It’s more the path of a tether ball. It goes round and round, changing speed, direction and attitude with each full turn and then, BANG, it...

Never Let Your Life Insurance Lapse Accidentally!

by | Feb 12, 2015 | application process, approval, business life insurance, cancer, contestability, customer service, death benefit, estate tax attorney, estate taxes, grace period, insurance, life insurance, life insurance lapse, life insurance second addressee, loyal customers, no lapse guarantee

I just got off the phone with a guy who missed the end of the grace period on his $1 million life insurance policy by 3 days. He called and asked for forgiveness and was told that he could fill out a reinstatement application and, if approved, the policy would be...

We Need To Have A Talk!

by | Jan 30, 2015 | A1c, approval, compliance, coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, gastric bypass, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting, over 50 life insurance, Type 2 diabetes

That phrase is usually followed by a conversation that you may end up feeling you really didn’t need to have, but I’m here with a breath of fresh air, a talk we need to have about how to get better life insurance rates when you have diabetes. Why now? Why...

Why Is A Life Insurance Standard Rate So, Standard?

by | Dec 29, 2014 | application process, approval, coronary artery disease (CAD), decline, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, over 50 life insurance, Type 1 diabetes

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being approved for life insurance at a standard rate class or higher, unless you qualify for a better rate class through another company. There are a large number of companies that don’t even offer multiple rate classes....

When Old Folks Need Business Life Insurance!

by | Nov 25, 2014 | application process, approval, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval

Being one of them (the old folks) I carefully admit that I was probably a little easier to underwriter for life insurance 20 or 30 years ago than I am today. I am currently working the partners in a company, both in their 60’s, who made a real common error in...

Your Medical Records And Life Insurance!

by | Nov 10, 2014 | application process, approval, CEO life insurance, compliance, decline, doctor's recommendation, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting

Things pop up day to day in my business that remind me that I haven’t written about some particular life insurance pitfall in a while. Just as much as any life insurance impaired risk you might present, the inaccurate BS information that doctors put in or allow...

What If All Life Insurance Was Easy?

by | Nov 1, 2014 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, DUI, high net worth, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, physicians life insurance

I can tell you without hesitating that I wouldn’t be in the life insurance business if I was just churning out easy business and that isn’t to say I couldn’t make good money doing it. It is the challenges of working with underwriters to find a way to...

OK. I Get It, But Is It Going To Kill You?

by | Oct 27, 2014 | angioplasty, approval, bypass surgery, CEO life insurance, coronary artery disease (CAD), decline, ejection fraction, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, LVEF

I guess on some level I get that if you have coronary artery disease, you will always have it and I get that people with early onset CAD, actuarialy life insurance speaking are a worse life insurance risk than someone who is diagnosed, say, in their 50’s. But...

Proactive Health Kills Life Insurance!

by | Jul 3, 2014 | angioplasty, approval, business life insurance, coronary artery disease (CAD), executives, family history, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting

I’m working on one of those stranger than fiction life insurance cases right now. When I shopped it and got the first round of responses I literally sent all of them back out and ask them if they had read my request correctly. Surely they had missed something...

The New Retirement And Life Insurance?

by | May 31, 2014 | approval, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, guaranteed level premium, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, International Business insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, over 50 life insurance

For me there was really nothing to come to grips with. I’ve seen the new 60 become 65 and the new 65 become 70 and I’ve seen the government tweak social security so that the longer you don’t take it the more money you are paid (per month), or put...