by Ed Hinerman | Apr 24, 2019 | budget, Dave Ramsey, life insurance
My New Year’s resolution is to always tell the truth no matter whose buttons it pushes. I’ve been bullied into backing off of a few blog posts in the past but life’s too short and life insurance and your budget are too important. Feathers will be...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2018 | appropriate life insurance recommendation, budget, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, Dave Ramsey, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
They aren’t hiding in plain sight! They aren’t where you would expect to find them with the super giant on line life insurance agencies like Selectquote or Reliaquote. Selectquote says on their website that, “You’re just a few steps away from...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 25, 2017 | appropriate life insurance recommendation, bait and switch, budget, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Big old double asterisk here**. In consideration of replacing your life insurance policy with a new one that has potentially better rates or more death benefit or a longer (or shorter) term length, NEVER, and I really mean never, cancel the policy you want to get rid...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 26, 2016 | budget, customer service, honesty, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Well, aren’t I just full of myself. I hope I don’t come off that way, but honestly there are numerous strengths we have that you can’t just find by the luck of the draw. There are 200,000 plus life insurance agents out there and without flinching I...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 25, 2016 | budget, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, over 50 life insurance, shopping for the best life insurance
For the sake of this post let’s assume that from a life insurance perspective we would all live to about 90, well above the average mortality rate at least for Americans. And we’ll call that perfect! So life insurance should be free, right, if we all live...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 13, 2016 | budget, Independent agent, indexed universal life, insurance, lapse, life insurance, life insurance lapse
Over the years the most common reason I’ve seen for life insurance lapsing is that 1. The life insurance agent didn’t ask or didn’t care what your budget was or 2. You didn’t know or didn’t care what your budget was. I know it seems kind...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 4, 2016 | budget, Dave Ramsey, death benefit, financial adviser, guarantee, honesty, insurable interest, insurance, life insurance
DOW tumbles another 350 points! So, everyone who reads this forum assumes it’s going to be another bit of wisdom…..or a dash of the world according to Ed, about life insurance. And it is, but what’s the connection between a loser year for stocks and...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 6, 2015 | application process, approval, beneficiary, bipolar disorder, budget, cash value, contestability, contestability period, insurance, life insurance, life insurance replacement, replacement
As I was filling out an obnoxiously lengthy New York life insurance replacement form yesterday it occurred to me that replacement, the idea of getting rid of a current policy and replacing it with a new policy has kind of gotten one of those back alley bad raps. State...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 3, 2015 | budget, disability income, honesty, insurance, life insurance, Long term care rider
Back in the 70’s I was taught at Mutual of Omaha that making a sale was great, but that agents and companies really made their best profit from the added bells and whistles. “For just $6 more dollars a month we could add a Cancer policy” or...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 22, 2015 | application process, approval, budget, children's life insurance, financial adviser, guaranteed level premium, impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, second to die insurance
If all agents and all companies were created equal, well, you might as well get rid of all the agents and created “The Insurance Company”, completely computerized and ready to mistreat everyone on an equal basis. But alas we live in the real world and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 8, 2015 | bad customer service, bait and switch, budget, cash value, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, honesty, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, life insurance lapse, lifetime guaranteed UL, loyal customers, rate increase, universal life
Transamerica Life Insurance, formerly Transamerica/Occidental Life may have just taken over the coveted position in the life insurance industry that Protective Life has held for years, the Turd In The Punchbowl Award. They sent out the this email today announcing that...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 19, 2015 | application process, approval, budget, business life insurance, children's life insurance, compliance, diabetes, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
I was contacted today by a woman who was pretty distressed by the fact that Gerber Life wouldn’t approve her 17 year old daughter for life insurance. The young lady has type 1 diabetes and I want to touch on a couple of subjects with this particular situation....
by Ed Hinerman | 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...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 28, 2014 | budget, cash value, guaranteed level premium, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance underwriting, term insurance
Ah, the good old days. Milk was 50 cents a gallon. Gas was 25 cents a gallon. A new car was under $2000. And life insurance, well, life insurance was so expensive that people had to pay for it by the week. The good old days of life insurance are where we are. In spite...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 22, 2014 | application process, approval, budget, children's life insurance, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance
None of your business, right? Life insurance is a personal choice and is generally between spouses, but let me just lay some thoughts out there so you can better understand why you understanding their life insurance status can be a big help to them. On average I would...
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