by Ed Hinerman | May 9, 2013 | application process, beneficiary, insurable interest, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this part of the life insurance process and there are some things that have changed and some that I simply need to redunderfy. Beneficiary designations are often not taken as seriously as they should be and can end up...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 13, 2013 | AARP, beneficiary, compliance, contestability, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance claim process, New York Life, over 50 life insurance
I’ve decided, for the sake of us elderly folks and all of us who are related to elderly folks and anyone who gives a damn about treating people right, to get off the fence and say what I really think about AARP and their New York Life insurance plan. For those...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 22, 2012 | AARP, beneficiary, cancer, contestability, contestability period, death benefit, insurance, life insurance, New York Life
Can you imagine how bored I would get if I couldn’t count on AARP to provide blog material on an absolutely continuous, unending basis? After all of the really awful things I’ve had to say about the AARP/New York Life insurance program over the years, my...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 20, 2012 | beneficiary, contingent beneficiary, death benefit, insurance, life insurance
Where do I want the life insurance death benefit to go if I die prematurely? That’s an easy answer for most of us. We want it to go to our spouse. We want him or her to have the money to carry on in the event we are no longer around to provide income and, of...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 15, 2010 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
In a post I had written a year or so ago I had related the story of a client who was fighting with hospitals and her fiance’s family for a life insurance death benefit that was rightfully hers. They were a proactive couple, wanting all of the pieces in place by...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 28, 2010 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
I’m a fan of sorts of National Public Radio. They take the time to talk about a lot of topics that regular radio and television really don’t find profitable and I love to catch “All Things Considered” when I’m traveling. I would...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 1, 2010 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
After some discussion with a client today I thought it was worth expanding the conversation. He had submitted an application for life insurance showing his wife and his two daughters, ages 1 and 3, as equal primary beneficiaries of a $1,000,000 policy. His logic was...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 17, 2010 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
I get one of these calls every month or so. A client can’t remember where they put their life insurance policy. It’s not a huge deal to fix the problem, or at least to get a new policy. The larger problem is that if you can’t find your life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 28, 2009 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
I got a call from the daughter of a man who had asked me to send him an application for life insurance back in 2003 today. She wanted to know if I could help her track down the policy as he had recently passed away and the application they had found in his paperwork...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 22, 2009 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
Back in the day….In a much simpler time there used to be a stock answer to how much life insurance a person should carry. There was no real need for a drawn out needs analysis. Life was simple. How much life insurance do I need? Well, ten times your annual...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 21, 2009 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
When we’re going through this whole thing of applying for and eventually putting in force a life insurance policy, often there is a very valuable talk with the beneficiary of that insurance that gets overlooked. You can really start with the basics and believe...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2009 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
Over the hundreds of year I’ve been in the life insurance business I’ve given out who knows how many thousands of business cards and sent out who knows how many quotes, all a paper trail leading back to me saying that maybe there is life insurance in...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 27, 2009 | beneficiary, conversion, estate taxes, foreign travel, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, private pilots, scuba diving, suicide clause
I did a series of posts last year on life insurance policies and have referred back to those posts on several occasions when explaining some specific clauses and options such as the suicide clause and incontestability clause and the conversion option. Now I would like...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 3, 2009 | beneficiary, death benefit, decline, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life
Amazing to me the number of people who die with life insurance in force and who spaced out two little details, telling someone that there is insurance and telling them where to find the policy. Because our batting average is less than 100% for turning contacts into in...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 27, 2009 | beneficiary, business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life partner
I have written several posts on the subject of beneficiary rights if a claim happens during the incontestability period. This is a little talked about subject that can truly cause problems for those who are engaged, are life partners, have used life insurance as...
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