We Go There And They Come Here!

I’m considering Lasik surgery and as with all things medical in the US I was kind of ticked off when I saw the prices and then, how unpatriotic of me, compared them to a vacation to Costa Rica that happened to include the same medical procedure at a state of the...

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...

What If All Life Insurance Was Easy?

I can tell you without hesitating that I wouldn’t be in the life insurance business if I was just churning out easy business and that isn’t to say I couldn’t make good money doing it. It is the challenges of working with underwriters to find a way to...

Five Boneheaded Life Insurance Underwriter Questions!

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...

Scooped By Wall Street Journal?

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!...

We Don’t Have Four More Years. Act Now On Life Insurance!

Whether there is anything to the Mayan calendar that predicts the end of the world next month or not, there is one thing that is an absolute life insurance fact. Because of actions by the NAIC, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, with the strict...