by Ed Hinerman | Oct 14, 2020 | insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
I wrote this post early last year, but just had an experience that inspired me to update the post and bring a little information to the table. Shopping For Life Insurance Can Be OK Or Seriously Annoying. Why? In life insurance it isn’t even like those incessant...
by Ed Hinerman | May 2, 2018 | bait and switch, impaired risk life insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance underwriting, Protective Life
I’ve had several questions about the new Protective Life offering of life insurance through Costco. One client emailed, “So, I wanted to run something by you. My husband and I were in Costco on Friday and they had an insurance booth set up. The company...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 25, 2017 | business life insurance, CEO life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
I talk often and loudly about how many people, through no fault of their own, end up paying too much for life insurance. That’s the first crime usually inflicted by using the wrong agent who used the wrong company. The second crime is when you, the life...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 20, 2017 | business life insurance, CEO life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
How’s this for shock value? Life insurance agents get into the business to make money and there are times when how much money they are going to make may, just may, skew their recommendation on what product you should buy. No really! That can happen one of two...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 26, 2016 | Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, insurance, insurance quotes, International Business insurance, life insurance, Pan American Life Insurance
I recently became affiliated with Pan American Life Insurance in hopes of making it substantially easier to write business outside the US, with emphasis on the Caribbean, Latin and South America. Although they can and do serve business world wide, logistically because...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 21, 2016 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, guaranteed issue life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance exam, over 50 life insurance
A query about life insurance yesterday from a 58 year old with no health history, no family history and no current treatment and a great build led to quotes at a preferred plus level. A return email today asked me to quote a worse rate class doubting that someone his...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 10, 2016 | disability, disability income, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, replacement of income, traumatic brain injury
I had a long talk with myself, a luxury of being bipolar, about death and the protection that a well thought out life insurance program can give loved ones or business partners. But then I took a step back and looked at it from the perspective of what if a person...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 31, 2016 | adverse selection, customer service, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
I suppose it’s no different than any other industry. It grows and someone learns how to do it better, then faster, then faster and better, then faster without better, then it morphs into something that doesn’t really serve anyone’s needs other than...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 25, 2016 | budget, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, over 50 life insurance, shopping for the best life insurance
For the sake of this post let’s assume that from a life insurance perspective we would all live to about 90, well above the average mortality rate at least for Americans. And we’ll call that perfect! So life insurance should be free, right, if we all live...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 14, 2016 | age nearest, backdating to save age, customer service, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
How many phone calls or emails have I received suggesting that I must have made a mistake on a client’s life insurance quote because they’re really, for instance, age 50, not 51. Trust me! At my age adding a year to my life that I haven’t earned yet...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 12, 2015 | guaranteed issue medical insurance, guaranteed level premium, Health insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, Short term major medical
Once again Obamacare is upon us and those who have joined are scrambling to figure out what direction to take this year. And whether Obamacare, the ACA, survives the next President and Congress, all of the alternatives will have an enrollment period. For 2016 that is...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 4, 2015 | application process, approval, bad customer service, bipolar disorder, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
A colleague and I both watched a Selectquote television ad the other night and the next morning I won the race to call him and cry foul. For years we’ve debated that fine line between active bait and switch in life insurance quoting and just being too stupid to...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 30, 2015 | claim, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
I had a guy in his mid 40’s call me several months ago. His wife had broached the subject of life insurance with him, suggesting correctly that if he were to die unexpectedly she and the kids were going to have a rough time. While he was doing well in his job,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 24, 2015 | approval, basal cell carcinoma, family history, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting, melanoma, mortality risk, squamous cell carcinoma
Call me naive, but there are almost daily occurrences of me seeing less mortality risk in a life insurance underwriting situation than the majority of underwriters. I get that they are paid to see everything through conservative lenses, but there are times when, to...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 6, 2015 | application process, approval, attending physician statement, decline, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, Medical Information Bureau, medical record acquisition, medical records life insurance
Update my personal history in your records if you expect me to pay your bill. Yes, I am suggesting yelling at your doctor and yes, they may get all offended by the assertion that they aren’t doing their job, but it’s kind of like the old adage, “How...
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