by Ed Hinerman | Oct 14, 2015 | approval, bipolar disorder, contestability period, death benefit, foreign travel, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, private pilots
I would never encourage a client to fudge on a life insurance application question, or even kind of skirt around an issue for the sake of getting approved. It’s an open invitation to having a death benefit successfully contested. Honesty is simply and completely...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 5, 2015 | assumptions, bad customer service, compliance, conversion, Conversion to a permanent product, death benefit, guarantee, honesty, insurance, lapse, life insurance, no lapse guarantee, universal life
Call AXA life insurance customer service sometime at 800-877-6810 and hear,”Welcome to AXA Life Service Center WHERE WE CONTINUE TO REDEFINE STANDARDS”. The question immediately comes to mind for me, knowing the track record of AXA, wouldn’t they be...
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 | Sep 15, 2015 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, cancer, decline, doctor's recommendation, family history, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I am currently shopping for life insurance for a 50 year old nurse who had breast cancer in 2001. She had a lumpectomy and there was “a very small amount of cancer cells” found in one of the sentinel lymph nodes checked. Because of the lymph node she was...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 3, 2015 | bad customer service, bait and switch, claim, Conversion to a permanent product, guarantee, insurance, lapse, life insurance, Protective Life
I’ll leave the definition of “It” up to the reader. In a Protective Today newsletter release dated 8/31/2015, Dave Sheridan, a vice president and national sales manager for Protective Life felt the need to help agents understand why they are a much...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 3, 2015 | budget, disability income, honesty, insurance, life insurance, Long term care rider
Back in the 70’s I was taught at Mutual of Omaha that making a sale was great, but that agents and companies really made their best profit from the added bells and whistles. “For just $6 more dollars a month we could add a Cancer policy” or...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2015 | assumptions, bait and switch, cash value, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, universal life, variable universal life
Not that long I dropped the Trans bomb that, well gosh, they were going to have to the raise the rates on a bunch of their old universal life policies and my reaction was one of those “Don’t tell me I haven’t been telling you for years” things....
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2015 | ADHD, Anxiety, approval, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, compliance, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I live at the base of Mount Antero here in Colorado (Prospector show on the Weather Channel) and yesterday afternoon hiked up to Brown’s Lake, a twelve mile round trip hike up and down Brown’s Creek. I only went to about 12,000 feet, fairly short of the...
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 | 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 | Aug 20, 2015 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, bipolar disorder, CDT alcohol marker, decline, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance
Fresh back from vacation I had to send a potential customer an email explaining that none of the life insurance companies I represent wanted to approve a policy for him. He called a short time later and thanked me for shopping it and then proceeded to eat my face off...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 5, 2015 | abnormal labs, approval, bait and switch, bipolar disorder, height and weight, impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, lab results, life insurance, lifetime guaranteed UL, medical record acquisition
I just wanted to share a few examples of why it’s important to shop every impaired risk life insurance application for sure and not a bad idea to shop all cases. I’ve beat on this over the years because so many life insurance agents out there are willing...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 4, 2015 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, decline, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
In the business of serious impaired risk life insurance, I celebrate each victory, and never take it for granted that the next one will be the same or end in an approval. We just got another HIV+ life insurance approval, this time for an executive in a large city...
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,...
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