by Ed Hinerman | Aug 28, 2020 | death benefit, life insurance
I was reading this post written in 2012 and decided, for several reasons, that it was still a very valid message that needed updated and restated, so here you go! In Life Insurance Someone Needs To Take The Lead Studies showing that there are 46 million adults who...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 7, 2016 | death benefit, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance claim process
As much as people don’t like insurance companies, well, here’s one more reason. I should be talking about all the reasons to like and trust them, but when they intentionally try to get out of doing the right thing, they are fair game. There is a thing in...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 16, 2016 | contractual understanding, death benefit, grandparent life insurance, insurance, life insurance
In spite of the best guidance and advice there are times when life insurance just doesn’t get the job done. I know I’ve probably said it a few thousand times, that some life insurance is better than nothing, but in the absence of a well thought out plan...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 30, 2016 | application process, cancer, claim, contestability, contestability period, death benefit, grace period, heart attack, incontestability, insurance, life insurance
Part of being in the life insurance business, neck deep as I am, is the fact that sooner or later there are claims. If a life insurance agent sells a lot of products and a few of those are life insurance policies they might retire with only a claim or two to walk...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 22, 2016 | CEO life insurance, death benefit, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, retirement life insurance
Retirement in 1975 meant a gold watch or some other trinket and a check in the mail every month. That was 40 years ago and I suspect if you look far enough you can find people that still retire like that, but the new retirement norm is a whole different scene. And...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 27, 2016 | beneficiary, business life insurance, death benefit, life insurance, life insurance non taxable
I always get so excited when, let’s say for Labor Day, the hardware store has a tax free weekend. Dang! That’s the equivalent where I live of getting 7% off of that new hose and sprinkler. Seriously now, on any other day you can walk up to the checkout...
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 | Oct 22, 2015 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, bipolar disorder, death benefit, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance underwriting, physicians life insurance
Abuse of prescription drugs has been a growing problem for a few decades now and life insurance underwriters have tried to balance their reaction of this abuse with alcohol abuse and illegal drug abuse. For the most part the underwriting mirrors that of other...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 14, 2015 | approval, bipolar disorder, contestability period, death benefit, foreign travel, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, private pilots
I would never encourage a client to fudge on a life insurance application question, or even kind of skirt around an issue for the sake of getting approved. It’s an open invitation to having a death benefit successfully contested. Honesty is simply and completely...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 5, 2015 | assumptions, bad customer service, compliance, conversion, Conversion to a permanent product, death benefit, guarantee, honesty, insurance, lapse, life insurance, no lapse guarantee, universal life
Call AXA life insurance customer service sometime at 800-877-6810 and hear,”Welcome to AXA Life Service Center WHERE WE CONTINUE TO REDEFINE STANDARDS”. The question immediately comes to mind for me, knowing the track record of AXA, wouldn’t they be...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 27, 2015 | death benefit, insurable interest, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
Well, yet another “market correction”. I’m not a pessimistic guy by nature but the wealth, as modest as it might for the average American, seems to be held together by almost nothing at times. I wonder if the stock market wisdom of the ages, to sit and stay, is always...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 13, 2015 | application process, contestability period, death benefit, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim
You know, I understand how referring someone, even when your experience was just like it should be, can be awkward. First you’ve had a good experience with a life insurance agent, friendly, personable, efficient and professional. You got what you wanted and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 25, 2015 | claim, contestability period, customer service, death benefit, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim
For all of you out there who long since lost track of your life insurance agent and are filing a claim on your own, let me start by expressing my sincere condolences. That is exactly how the process will start when you call the company to start the process and you...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 31, 2015 | beneficiary, claim, customer service, death benefit, incontestability, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance claim process
It’s really not that much work, but there are some unexpected things that pop up during the process that, well, would be handy to know. It might lower the stress level, something that anyone grieving the loss of a loved one would welcome. First let me say...
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...
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