by Ed Hinerman | Sep 19, 2016 | customer service, financial adviser, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance
I’ve been a part of the past and the present in the life insurance business. In the past you might get a card in the mail asking if you wanted a life or health insurance agent to come by and discuss the products with you face to face, across the dinner table. In...
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 | Aug 24, 2015 | assumptions, executives, financial adviser, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, honesty, insurance, life insurance, universal life, variable universal life
It’s one of those days when I wish I could turn back the clock 30 years and use rectal explosive devices on all of the life insurance executives and life insurance agents who sold universal life insurance misled customers either with no explanation of the...
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 | Nov 18, 2014 | assumptions, cash value, financial adviser, guaranteed level premium, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, lifetime guaranteed UL, term insurance, universal life, whole life
Greed strike a chord with you? After years of looking at indexed universal life insurance and hearing all the arguments and seeing all of failures, it occurs to me that the bigger the cash value numbers an agent can show a potential client, whether they are based in...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 21, 2014 | Burial insurance, conversion, Conversion to a permanent product, final expense life insurance, financial adviser, honesty, insurance, life insurance, no lapse guarantee, term insurance, universal life
Hopefully that got your attention if you have a Genworth Life or First Colony “Colony series” term life insurance policy. The company had to make a business decision about their low cost super competitive term conversion product, the Genguard no lapse...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 19, 2014 | financial adviser, grandparent life insurance, impaired risk life insurance, income replacement, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance
My name is Ed Hinerman and my wife and I are grandparents. In the whole scheme of things hardly noteworthy except for the fact that we are part of a growing number of grandparents who are raising our grandchild. The last census showed that just shy of 5 million...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 3, 2012 | cash value, financial adviser, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, Met Life, universal life, variable universal life, whole life
Over my career in life insurance I’ve run across some really sleazy things done by life insurance agents that in no way helped the client but definitely made the agent a great payday. Our industry has some checks and balances in place to try to hold down...
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 | Nov 5, 2012 | approval, contestability, decline, financial adviser, insurance, life insurance
Over the last seven years I have only taken, I think, maybe three opportunities in this forum to spout off on a subject not necessarily related to life insurance, life insurance underwriting or impaired risk life insurance. The election is tomorrow and without knowing...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 18, 2012 | AARP, Burial insurance, compliance, final expense life insurance, financial adviser, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, insurance, life insurance, universal life
Everyone wants a deal. My wife never buys anything without throwing out the Dave Ramsey line, “Is that the best you can do?”, and I am amazed at how much and where she gets discounts. Too bad Dave has never asked his own life insurance agent that, but...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 10, 2012 | customer service, decline, executives, financial adviser, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, term insurance
The CEO of a Denver based company contacted me today. He was shopping for life insurance and because he was a private pilot with almost no current flight time, as in none for 4 years, he was getting quotes that were through the roof. When you need millions in life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 11, 2012 | cash value, conversion, financial adviser, insurance, life insurance, mortality, term insurance, universal life, whole life
A few years back I read an article in a trade publication and, well, I was much younger then and easily riled. I am still getting comments on the post I wrote about that article. In the life insurance business there is an organization called the Million Dollar Round...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 21, 2012 | accidental death, financial adviser, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
According to the US Census bureau about 2.5 million people die every year in the United States. That’s from all causes and all ages. Assuming all days are equal that means that about 6850 people die every day in our country. This is going to get a little deep...
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....
My 20 years of experience give me the knowledge and leverage to find reasonably-priced life insurance for people who have been declined or are paying more than they need to. Request a Free Consultation Today!
Recent Comments