by Ed Hinerman | Sep 12, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
Within the next month or so I expect we will be announcing an affiliation that will allow us to write both term insurance and universal life insurance all over the world. In a previous post I had mentioned that we had found a company that was willing to write...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 12, 2007 | insurance, life insurance
They are call beneficiaries. As we continue to pick apart life insurance policies I wanted to touch on the subject of beneficiaries, how to choose them, and things not to do. The owner of the policy designates the beneficiaries. Most often the insured is the owner,...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 11, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance
Continuing on with dissecting life insurance policies, the suicide and contestability clause is common to all policies, whether term insurance, whole life or universal life. Referring back to my policy, let’s look at the two provisions. Incontestability and...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 11, 2007 | cancer, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, term insurance, universal life
We have been gutting term life insurance this week starting with a look at an actual policy. Being a contract as it is, there are plenty of definitions and clauses and options and such. So my previous posts didn’t get too hefty, I picked out a few items to...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 11, 2007 | diabetes, Fat March, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
The ABC reality weight loss show, Fat March, concluded last night with the remaining 6 participants completing a 575 mile walk from Boston to Washington, DC. Plenty of pounds were shed. Plenty of sore knees to show for it. I have followed Fat March strictly from a...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 11, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
In the last post we covered the fact that the “default” payment option is a lump sum payment to your beneficiary. Either the owner of the policy or the beneficiary can change that option. Attached is the portion of the policy that deals with payment...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 11, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
Now we are into some exciting stuff. We have blown past the cover and are now truly into the guts, the purported fine print, of my policy. I won’t hit on every detail of the next 4 pages. I figure if you can follow my ramblings, a little contract language should...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 10, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
Over the next three posts I will be opening up an actual in force term life insurance policy in an effort to do away with the “fine print” myth that I mentioned in a previous post, and also to generally educate you about the guts of a policy. There are no...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 9, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, universal life
I’m sure that will get the attention of VUL agents, and VUL policy owners. And it should. The variable universal life policy, for my money, is nothing better than a legal misrepresentation. How many times have I talked about the problem with agents selling and...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 9, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
Look out for the fine print! Make sure you check the fine print in your contract! There is probably nothing about a contract, whether it is a lease, a financing contract, or a life insurance policy, that worries people more than the fine print. Thanks to insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 8, 2007 | cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
It’s been another one of those weeks where people seem to be out to overthrow logic with, well, illogical thinking. It was about a tie between the insurance companies and those considering buying life insurance. They both seem to have a common flaw in the way...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 7, 2007 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, return of premium term insurance
In a post a few days ago I talked about the fact that women in business have several reasons to consider life insurance. On a site called Women’s Initiative , they presented a list from an article in the Birmingham Business Journal, of statistics about women in...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 7, 2007 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
I mentioned in a post the other day that one of my shortcomings is I have a very generalized philosophy that if a little bit of something is good for me, a lot of it should be great for me. If, whatever it is, can be used in monstrous quantities, who’s to say I...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 7, 2007 | cancer, epilepsy, guaranteed issue life insurance, insurance, private pilots
We’ve all heard some version of the story. A life insurance policy with an exclusion for anyone that dies if they are hit by a bus while wearing a green shirt on a Wednesday during August. Actually if the price was good, I would take that one. Don’t...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 7, 2007 | cholesterol, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
Cholesterol, as I’ve mentioned before, is one of the two leading causes of surprise insurance quote changes. The other is not really knowing what your weight is. A good guess only lasts until the examiner pulls out the scale. But, are insurance companies...
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