Life Insurance Assault And Battery On Professionals?

It’s been a long time since I addressed the topic of the beating that professionals, from physicians to attorneys to CEO’s take on life insurance if they have ever even been suspected of having a mood disorder. The way life insurance underwriting jumps all...

The Fat Lady Finally Sang!

I ran into a client over a year ago who presented me with one of those life insurance scenarios that brings out the gag reflex in even the best of underwriters, one of “those issues” that has been an automatic decline since life insurance was invented, an...

Bipolar Life Insurance Acting A Bit, Well, Bipolar Right Now!

So we’re all familiar with the manic and depressive swings that are the hall mark of bipolar disorder. Some are subtle and manifest as people that work like crazy and then need down time to recover. The more severe bipolar manifestations are manic on the out of...

How Valuable Was Your Dead CEO?

In all seriousness I hope you don’t ask yourself that question after the fact. Whether you are the President of the company or on the Board of Directors, or the Janitor you should know that the death of the CEO of a company can pass one of two ways, 1. Planned...

Business Succession Life Insurance Isn’t Just Fluff!

As a business person I can tell you that just the suggestion by someone that I should purchase something else to benefit my business makes me, well, underwhelmed with enthusiasm. I know the problem extends way beyond business and centers around the fact that there are...

When Old Folks Need Business Life Insurance!

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!

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...

Does Your CEO Need Cash Value Life Insurance?

There are definitely two schools of thinking on the subject of how to handle executive life insurance, especially key person policies. Just to put this in perspective, I’m kind of an old guy and I would call the idea of using cash value policies to fund key...

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

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...

Nothing To Lose? Are You Sure?

I get that business people get tired of hearing about all of the kinds of insurance they should be carrying because I am one. I carry more than what’s required by law in errors and omissions insurance just because of the litigious nature of our country. I err on...

Five Practical Applications of Business Life Insurance!

I’ve helped orchestrate business life insurance for everything from the simple loan collateral policy to complicated stock repurchase plans, but what all business life insurance has in common is business succession, making sure the business survives in the event...

Aviation Life Insurance, Then and Now!

With the economy doing a little better private pilots, aviation instructors and commercial pilots are checking their life insurance and getting back off the ground. When a gallon of fuel was worth almost as much as the aircraft especially the private pilots and...

International Business Risk Life Insurance!

According to recent U.S. State Department statistics, over 6.3 million American civilians currently live in more than 160 countries around the world. Due to modern globalization and the optimistic ideals of free trade and enterprise, the United States has one of the...