by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2015 | application process, approval, business life insurance, cancer, contestability, customer service, death benefit, estate tax attorney, estate taxes, grace period, insurance, life insurance, life insurance lapse, life insurance second addressee, loyal customers, no lapse guarantee
I just got off the phone with a guy who missed the end of the grace period on his $1 million life insurance policy by 3 days. He called and asked for forgiveness and was told that he could fill out a reinstatement application and, if approved, the policy would be...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 4, 2014 | business life insurance, CEO life insurance, estate taxes, executives, guarantee, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance
When the dot.com industry hit the world we suddenly had CEO’s and Presidents of companies who were young, healthy and like the rest of us at that age, immortal. With immortality comes a seemingly valid reason for a CEO to not buy life insurance, or even...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 29, 2014 | application process, approval, business life insurance, death benefit, estate taxes, executives, high net worth, insurable interest, insurance, life insurance
You can figure I would take off on a subject like this because of some recent interaction with a life insurance underwriter who obviously has a desk somewhere out in left field, but the truth is there is never any shortage of questions that are completely irrelevant...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 1, 2012 | estate taxes, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, no lapse guarantee, over 50 life insurance, rate increase, universal life
I get calls every once in a while from people whose spouse or parent is literally terminally ill and many times imminently terminal. I think they know the answer already but I understand that they see what’s coming and they know it’s going to be a financial hit and,...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 22, 2012 | application process, estate taxes, executives, financial adviser, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, high net worth, insurance, life insurance, no lapse guarantee, universal life
For months, no years now I have been writing about and telling clients about the best permanent product on the life insurance market and how, if they drug their feet long enough considering the purchase, a day would come when they would look back and say, “Dang!...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 23, 2012 | conversion, death benefit, estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I thought it would be good to revisit some of the original posts on this forum. It’s been over 5 years and somewhere near a million words now and I wanted to see if I’m like a politician and flip flop on issues, or as I found in a few cases, the issues...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 8, 2012 | estate tax attorney, estate taxes, financial adviser, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
What do estate tax attorneys and financial planners have in common? Short,fat and bald? Maybe but not the answer I’m alluding to. They’re both working to keep the money you make in your family! Another good answer but still not quite where I was headed....
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 11, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
I know we’re American and believe that we not only ought to have our cake and eat it too, but it’s time the breadwinners of the country get a grip and allow that things don’t always go our way. I’ve talked before about what constitutes a need...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 15, 2011 | accidental death, estate taxes, High Limit AD and D, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
I have a client that is 76, the kind of guy that I envy at 18 years his junior. He skis the Rockies every year and is still an instrument rated private pilot, and an active business owner. The last two business life insurance policies we got him at ages 70 and 71, we...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 3, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
No, really!! That was the front page headline on and industry publication I get called Insurancenewsnet Magazine. Without even opening up the magazine I know where the rant is headed. Never in the history of estate planning has there been more opportunity to be as...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 1, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, Protective Life, rate increase, second to die insurance, universal life
I wrote an estate life insurance case 6 or so years ago that if you put a pencil to the numbers you would swear that the company had made a huge mistake. There was simply no feasible way for them to make a profit. The case was with Protective Life who, for a while,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 29, 2011 | estate taxes, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
In a post yesterday I insinuated that we may be entering the greatest two years in history for estate wealth building, estate wealth protection and wealth transfer. That statement still stands, but…. I asked Kevin Cox with Lincoln Financial to review the post in...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 28, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance
So when all of the estate tax and gifting laws shook out and got signed, two things really stood out. There were some very generous changes and, unless extended, they will only last two years. This could make for the largest two years transfer of wealth in history...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 7, 2010 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
As of yesterday it appears that the President and Congress have reached a deal on a wide variety of tax issues. For the purposes of life insurance and estate tax the latest and most important news is the end to the repeal of estate tax and clear guidelines moving...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 30, 2010 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
We would have certainly guessed that Congress would have dealt with the estate tax issue by now but, well, we would have guessed wrong for the second year in a row. There is still a lot of uncertainty about the future of estate tax law and along with that is the very...
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