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 | Jul 18, 2012 | assumptions, conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
I had a gentleman call me the other day to see what he could do about the mess his life insurance had ended up in. 10 years ago his agent converted his term insurance policy, at that time a Kemper policy and now a Protective Life policy. This man explained to the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 11, 2012 | conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life, West Coast Life
I have tried to reach out to all of my clients that have been consumed by Protective Life over the years. Empire General, West Coast Life, Federal Kemper, Zurich Kemper, Chase and on and on to let them know that when Protective Life got all of those term life...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 24, 2012 | guarantee, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, universal life, variable universal life
It’s an interesting view from here. I’m not sure what the equivalent would be for someone who doesn’t write almost daily for years. Maybe just looking back at pictures of how you’ve changed? I’ve picked out half a dozen blog posts from...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2012 | accelerated death benefit, conversion, customer service, guarantee, honesty, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
If good customer service cost less than bad customer service, which would you choose. Trick question, right? Let me qualify that question a little. If you knew ahead of time that you were making a major purchase that offered little or no customer service after the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 11, 2012 | cash value, guarantee, indixed universal life, Infinite banking, insurance, life insurance
A few days ago another agent took offense to my obviously uneducated view that indexed universal life is a poor excuse for a life insurance product, especially in the context of infinite banking. He commented on a post by starting with “I’m sure your completely...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2011 | AIG, conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I’ve always been an advocate of buying a term life insurance length, or multiple term insurance policies that reflect your actual life insurance needs with different term lengths. Due to some recent changes in conversion options I am considering an amendment to...
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 4, 2011 | guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
How many blog posts and articles have I written about the catastrophic meltdown of traditional universal life insurance policies? I have sought industry assistance in nailing down approximately what percentage of the total number of UL’s are in danger of...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 23, 2010 | guarantee, insurance, life insurance
In the last six or seven years NY life insurance has managed to lift itself out of the dark ages, and while still not as robust and open as the other 49 states, progress is still progress. I remember back when I first got licensed in all the states it didn’t...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 16, 2010 | AARP, guarantee, insurance, life insurance
Occasionally I review old posts to update or delete them and sometimes I run across one that I can remember writing. I feel my anxiety disorder getting pumped up. I feel my blood pressure rise and, well, I repost it. From 2008!! With each new magazine or bulletin, my...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 16, 2010 | guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
I received an email today from a person that says he was deceived by his life insurance agent about the length of the guarantee on a UL. I have no way to authenticate the email since my reply came back undeliverable and there was no phone number given. So, while the...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 28, 2010 | guarantee, guaranteed level premium, John Hancock, life insurance
I’ve written multiple times on the need for guarantees in life insurance. “Make sure the insurance you have has a guaranteed rate for as long as you’re going to need it”……”Don’t buy any insurance that doesn’t have...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 26, 2010 | guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
I had to change the top of my drum today. I’ve worn it out over the past two years beat it about all of the absolute crap (forgive me) that insurance companies are trying to pass off to consumers in the form of non guaranteed universal life and whole life...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 9, 2010 | guarantee, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
Life insurance companies, even highly rated companies, come and go. While some sell their blocks of business because they’re not competitive anymore, many decide to sell because another company offers them a huge amount of money. Protective Life made the board...
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