by Ed Hinerman | Aug 22, 2019 | income replacement, insurable interest, life insurance
WHERE WAS THE LIFE INSURANCE? I had this nagging feeling even before I understood what a great value life insurance protection is, and well before I started this forum to let everyone know the truth about life insurance. I would read or see in the news that a family...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 8, 2017 | insurable interest, life insurance, second to die insurance
The perfect life insurance product for dealing with estate tax obligations has always been the second to die or survivor-ship policy. Since the obligation to pay those taxes was transferred through an exemption to the surviving spouse, while there might have been a...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 11, 2016 | application process, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, cognitive understanding, contestability period, contractual understanding, insurable interest, insurance, life insurance
Over the years I’ve run into plenty of families who only wished their mom or dad still understood and qualified for life insurance. It would likely be a blessing to the family to have it in force, but there’s a point where the family has to admit they’ve missed that...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 17, 2016 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, insurable interest, insurance, International Business insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
The nice thing about having your own business is that, at least within the law, no one can tell you how to run it. We can recommend all we want that you flip those burgers just 15 seconds earlier or that you use gluten free beer in your beer battered fish filet, but...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 20, 2016 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, income replacement, insurable interest, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
There’s nothing quite like that feeling when life reaches a plateau where your job or your business are fun and making money. You’ve got it made or at least got it by the tail and now you can just work hard and put it on cruise control, right? I will be...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 7, 2016 | insurable interest, insurance, life insurance
I just got a call from a fund raising organization for policemen here in Colorado asking for a donation to a fund to assist widows of police killed in the line of duty. Know that I have always had a great deal of respect and admiration for police and fire personnel....
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 | Sep 23, 2015 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, insurable interest, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, partnership business life insurance
For those of us who own businesses at some point the question pops into our mind, “what happens to the company when I die”? If it doesn’t cross our minds, I assure you it will cross your spouse’s mind and at least the mind of the employees who...
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 | Apr 8, 2015 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, high net worth, insurable interest, insurance, International Business insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 30, 2015 | beneficiary, business life insurance, cancer, customer service, incontestability, insurable interest, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance lapse, life insurance second addressee, partnership business life insurance, stroke
This same subject keeps popping up in new forms. I’ve explained in the past how essential it is for unmarried couples or business partners to have a power of attorney to be able to sign a release of medical records for life insurance in the event that the...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 23, 2015 | beneficiary, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, customer service, executives, insurable interest, insurance, International Business insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
As a business person I can tell you that just the suggestion by someone that I should purchase something else to benefit my business makes me, well, underwhelmed with enthusiasm. I know the problem extends way beyond business and centers around the fact that there are...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 29, 2014 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, cash value, CEO life insurance, death benefit, insurable interest, key man insurance, life insurance, term insurance
There are definitely two schools of thinking on the subject of how to handle executive life insurance, especially key person policies. Just to put this in perspective, I’m kind of an old guy and I would call the idea of using cash value policies to fund key...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 27, 2014 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, impaired risk life insurance, insurable interest, insurance, International Business insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
I get that business people get tired of hearing about all of the kinds of insurance they should be carrying because I am one. I carry more than what’s required by law in errors and omissions insurance just because of the litigious nature of our country. I err on...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 1, 2014 | assumptions, beneficiary, compliance, contingent beneficiary, death benefit, insurable interest, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim
“Dad said he had life insurance but we can’t find a policy and don’t know what company it was with”! “My husband told me not to worry because he had a life insurance policy that would take care of everything, but now that he’s gone...
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