by Ed Hinerman | Oct 22, 2009 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance
I certainly don’t want to be seen as jumping on the pro excessive pay band wagon for executives, CEO’s and Presidents of companies, but there are some company financial health issues that can and should be addressed in the life insurance arena. It happens...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 16, 2009 | business life insurance, women
Whether as an executive or CEO of a large business, or as owner of one of the small businesses that are the backbone of this country, women are increasingly in charge of companies and increasingly needing to consider life insurance as a way to protect that for their...
by Ed Hinerman | May 18, 2009 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
That’s an easy one. If you can think of a person in the company, whether that is you, your partner, a long time key employee or board members that make the whole thing work, whose death would cause a financial stumbling block, there is a need for business life...
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 18, 2009 | A1c, AARP, Anxiety, beneficiary, bipolar, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, bypass surgery, cancer, Dave Ramsey, Depression, diabetes, foreign travel, gastric bypass, guarantee, heart attack, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, Independent agent, insurance, key man insurance, kidnap, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, New York Life, obesity, prayer, private pilots, prostate cancer, Prudential, PSA, ransom, scuba diving, skydiving, Sleep apnea, stroke, suicide clause, suze orman, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, universal life, variable universal life, whole life, women
It’s been a fascinating couple of years. I will sum it up by saying that we have helped a lot of people get life insurance who never thought they could. And what better way to celebrate the information we’ve shared and the victories we’ve had than...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 6, 2009 | business life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, return of premium term insurance, term insurance
In our current economic meltdown there are a lot of people out there trying to say that the government or big business are trying to run our country. What this country really runs on is small businesses and what really makes those businesses work is the owners or the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 31, 2009 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life
Ah, the almost age old question, term versus whole life. What is the right thing to do? Forgive me for being more than just a little opinionated on this subject, but personally I think that is a right for anyone that is on the right side of an argument. Whole life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 2, 2008 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, life insurance
For those of us who own and operate small businesses, we pour all we have into feeding our family, paying our employees and hopefully leaving something of value behind to our heirs. For many that entrepreneurial drive is cut short by a premature death and without...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 21, 2008 | business life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, return of premium term insurance, term insurance
I swear, where a year ago I was thinking New York would probably miss this century also, they have now rocked the life insurance world by approving return of premium term insurance for sale. Return of premium has been available in the rest of the country for years,...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2008 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
Small businesses, the backbone of American employment, often run by the slimmest of margins. I’m not talking about profit margins. I’m referring to the owner or one of the owners being just a heart attack away from leaving their family with the business or...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 31, 2007 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
A what you say? To put in more meaningful terms, if your employer died today, would the company continue to exist? Is there a plan in place to keep the business going? If not, is there a plan in place to soften the economic impact on employees, especially key...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 30, 2007 | business life insurance, children's life insurance, guaranteed issue life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
I had an email from a potential client today that said “I am looking for reasonably priced life insurance where there are no health questions and/or physical exam. If your group can fullfill these requirements than you can contact me”. There are a lot of...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 12, 2007 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, life insurance
One of the downsides to the cost of business buy/sell or cross purchase plans is that the cost of the life insurance premium is not income tax deductible. All of us in business know that we really would like air to be deductible if it could be arranged. Let me qualify...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 7, 2007 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, return of premium term insurance
In a post a few days ago I talked about the fact that women in business have several reasons to consider life insurance. On a site called Women’s Initiative , they presented a list from an article in the Birmingham Business Journal, of statistics about women in...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 3, 2007 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, life insurance
Whether as an executive or CEO of a large business, or as owner of one of the small businesses that are the backbone of this country, women are increasingly in charge of companies and increasingly needing to consider life insurance as a way to protect that for their...
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