by Ed Hinerman | Mar 8, 2016 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, doctor's recommendation, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance exam, life insurance underwriting
So here you are. You’ve made up your mind that you need life insurance to protect your family or your business. You’ve found an agent that you are comfortable with, an agent that seems knowledgeable about different types and reasons for life insurance,...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 7, 2016 | Hep C Cure, hepatitis, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, liver functions
I’m sure I had millions of people sitting by their computers waiting for me to follow up on my post a week and a half ago on how life insurance companies were going to treat the new cures for Hepatitis C. OK, I probably had the same two that are always there,...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 5, 2016 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, decline, insurance, life insurance, Medical Information Bureau, no exam, simplified issue life insurance
Let’s give a few minutes to the subject of simplified issue life insurance , aka no exam life insurance. If most life insurance companies ask a litany of health and background questions and require an exam with a full blood and urine workup, how can another ask...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 1, 2016 | application process, approval, bad customer service, bipolar disorder, CEO life insurance, decline, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
And with that you have applied for life insurance through Selectquote. What am I signing for?” You’re signing for your life insurance application so just take (in my case) your fat finger and pretend you’re signing your name on this tablet screen...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 24, 2016 | assumptions, bad customer service, bait and switch, guaranteed level premium, illustration, insurance, life insurance
Over the course of the last 30 years of being in and around the life insurance business I’ve seen agents and companies (and customers) make the products into the cure, the panacea, the over simplification and the shortcut to their end goal. Keep in mind that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 22, 2016 | application process, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, Ex Patriot life insurance, Foreign National Life Insurance, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance, retirement life insurance
I have a mentor/friend/business partner in life insurance of sorts in Denver who is a few years older than me (we have the 60’s covered) and we have kicked around retiring in Panama for a few years. The idea of Caribbean or Central American retirement certainly...
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 27, 2016 | beneficiary, business life insurance, death benefit, life insurance, life insurance non taxable
I always get so excited when, let’s say for Labor Day, the hardware store has a tax free weekend. Dang! That’s the equivalent where I live of getting 7% off of that new hose and sprinkler. Seriously now, on any other day you can walk up to the checkout...
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....
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