by Ed Hinerman | Aug 16, 2016 | contractual understanding, death benefit, grandparent life insurance, insurance, life insurance
In spite of the best guidance and advice there are times when life insurance just doesn’t get the job done. I know I’ve probably said it a few thousand times, that some life insurance is better than nothing, but in the absence of a well thought out plan...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 11, 2016 | appropriate life insurance recommendation, customer service, HIV life insurance, insurance, life insurance
How do you know if someone really cares about what they do? If they don’t stop putting the information out there, never stop trying to reach just one more person, because for my clients it’s help that is on the way. I’ve been writing in this forum...
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 | Aug 6, 2016 | acts of war or terrorism, Civilian War Zone Coverage, decline, foreign travel, insurance, life insurance
I’m working with husband and wife clients currently that plans on visiting Ukraine in the next few months, albeit Western Ukraine where the lack of action is the norm. So how does life insurance view this? It may not be a once in a life time visit, but it is...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 4, 2016 | assumptions, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, insurance, lapse, life insurance, lifetime guaranteed UL, no lapse guarantee, whole life
I had a life insurance case some years ago where I was able to help a client replace a Mass Mutual whole life policy that was on the cusp of imploding. What I mean by that is that to the untrained eye, the client’s, the policy seemed to be doing just fine. It...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 3, 2016 | application process, CEO life insurance, Ex Patriot life insurance, executives, Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, high net worth, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 2, 2016 | ADHD, Anxiety, bipolar disorder, CEO life insurance, Depression, executives, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Well before I was known for being someone with bipolar disorder, a reasonably stable, high functioning someone with bipolar disorder, I was the go to guy in the US, most of Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for those in need of life insurance who...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 1, 2016 | application process, appropriate life insurance recommendation, bad customer service, customer service, insurance, life insurance
OK, let’s be real. This is not the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought. Cars and houses lead that category, but customer service after the sale for cars and real estate is distinctly lacking. It’s certainly not the most often used. Your...
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 31, 2016 | appropriate life insurance recommendation, approval, clinical underwriting, impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Over the years I’ve talked about the 1% of life insurance companies that actually address both issues that matter the most to clients, approval and price. Being the grandiose kind of guy I am I was thinking about this in the context of a universe of companies,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 30, 2016 | application process, cancer, claim, contestability, contestability period, death benefit, grace period, heart attack, incontestability, insurance, life insurance
Part of being in the life insurance business, neck deep as I am, is the fact that sooner or later there are claims. If a life insurance agent sells a lot of products and a few of those are life insurance policies they might retire with only a claim or two to walk...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 29, 2016 | accelerated death benefit, accidental death, acts of war or terrorism, dangerous occupation life insurance, foreign travel, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance, mountain climbing, student pilot
At first thought, accidental death insurance seems quite simplistic and obvious without the need for much explanation. But you know me. Why let something obvious go without an explanation. You might be surprised at the number of inquiries I get asking what exactly...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 27, 2016 | cigar smokers, customer service, family history, insurance, life insurance, tobacco use change, underwriting change
There is good news and bad news for me and my life insurance clients. The good news is that there are a few constants that we can hold fast to and take to the bank year after year in life insurance underwriting. It seems that those that qualify for the best rate class...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 26, 2016 | angioplasty, approval, attending physician statement, bypass surgery, clinical underwriting, coronary artery disease (CAD), family history, heart attack, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
Coming off a post just a few days ago where I beat the compliance drum into a lather because that is what life insurance underwriters want to see, I turn around and shop a case where all of the underwriters fly in the very face of what they said and what I repeated. I...
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...
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