by Ed Hinerman | Feb 22, 2016 | CEO life insurance, death benefit, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, retirement life insurance
Retirement in 1975 meant a gold watch or some other trinket and a check in the mail every month. That was 40 years ago and I suspect if you look far enough you can find people that still retire like that, but the new retirement norm is a whole different scene. And...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 9, 2016 | application process, business life insurance, decline, insurance, life insurance, life insurance exam
I have run into a dearth (something just short of infinity) of people over the last 18 years in life insurance who have decided that getting proper coverage for their business or family is just going to be too much work, or the game will be rigged so that no matter...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 29, 2016 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, decline, impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Ah, the sting of being declined or being rated practically to death when you apply for life insurance. Do they really think you are on death’s door or do they just dislike you personally? Perhaps that life insurance company has a quota that limits the amount of...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 26, 2016 | ADHD, Anxiety, approval, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, compliance, decline, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, physicians life insurance
Now there’s a calming thought. You’re still alive, traumatized from head to toe from a car to moose gathering on the highways of Maine and you’ve made it to the hospital. The doctor and nurse start working and you relax as you know that you are with...
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 18, 2016 | application process, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, customer service, executives, insurance, International Business insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, loyal customers, partnership business life insurance
Who, if they left your company or died without adequate life insurance, would derail your company? Maybe it wouldn’t put you out of business but for at least a while you would experience chaos at a business level. It could be that the reputation of the CEO, with...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 13, 2016 | AIG, application process, customer service, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting
Oh I wish! While there are still some bastions of sanity in the life insurance industry it seems like they have become few and remote. While I like my vacation islands in that category I can tell you that few and remote is not the way client friendly, good customer...
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 | Dec 22, 2015 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, cholesterol, family history, height and weight, insurance, lab results, life insurance
I decided to dust off my keyboard today and talk just a little bit about why this blog and my opinions on life insurance underwriting have hit home, struck deep, rang the bell and put life insurance back on the table for so many who are able to translate and follow my...
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 | Nov 6, 2015 | application process, approval, beneficiary, bipolar disorder, budget, cash value, contestability, contestability period, insurance, life insurance, life insurance replacement, replacement
As I was filling out an obnoxiously lengthy New York life insurance replacement form yesterday it occurred to me that replacement, the idea of getting rid of a current policy and replacing it with a new policy has kind of gotten one of those back alley bad raps. State...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 29, 2015 | approval, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
The old saying goes, “Lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part”. But there are times, especially with business life insurance where all the planning in the world is derailed by the unforeseen and you need an agent who...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 28, 2015 | ADHD, Anxiety, approval, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, mortality risk, physicians life insurance
Life insurance companies are so burdened with their responsibility to clients to underwrite them fairly and offer the best price possible, and their responsibility to share holders to maximize profits by bringing in new business (competition) and cutting expenses...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 22, 2015 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, bipolar disorder, death benefit, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance underwriting, physicians life insurance
Abuse of prescription drugs has been a growing problem for a few decades now and life insurance underwriters have tried to balance their reaction of this abuse with alcohol abuse and illegal drug abuse. For the most part the underwriting mirrors that of other...
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