by Ed Hinerman | Mar 26, 2013 | bait and switch, conversion, Conversion to a permanent product, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, insurance, life insurance, lifetime guaranteed UL, loyal customers, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life
We left off the other day with a description of Protective Life’s universal life conversion product, a product that simply defies the imagination. Since they introduced….no wait. They forgot to introduce the product. Since they gave their loyal term...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 21, 2013 | conversion, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, Protective Life, term insurance, universal life, West Coast Life
Even though Protective and West Coast Life fired me years ago I still get their propaganda and that, along with an almost simultaneous run in with a Protective abusee has once again fired me up again to remind all of you out there who have Protective linked policies,...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 12, 2013 | guarantee, Independent agent, indixed universal life, insurance, life insurance, universal life
I had an agent questioning me about indexed universal life today. He admitted he was a new agent. He also admitted that one of his primary attractions to the product were the high premium and high commission. Call me old fashioned but I emailed back to him and asked...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 5, 2013 | approval, breast cancer, cancer, decline, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
There are some things, things medical, mental and lifestyle, that some insurance companies may never let go of. 15 or 20 years after the fact it is entirely possible that there are companies that will unflinchingly say no thanks to your life insurance business even...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 26, 2013 | AARP, accidental death, death benefit, group life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance claim process, New York Life
Here we go again. I called New York Life this morning to see if I could be assigned a permanent contact to call when beneficiaries are getting the run around on death claims. I ended up talking to the executive assistant for NYL Executive Vice President Michael...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2013 | death benefit, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, over 50 life insurance
Now that the Dow is back up where people are feeling optimistic, or at least relieved to have regained some worth in their retirement accounts, it’s time to take a little preventive medicine to avoid that upset stomach the next time the bottom falls out. While I...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 20, 2013 | business life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, physicians life insurance
I had an interesting scenario pop up while I was on vacation. Pam hates it when I get side tracked by life insurance when I am supposed to be recharging my batteries, but the truth is my job is fun and batteries can be recharged in more than one way. So I devoted a...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 29, 2013 | approval, cancer, decline, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer, PSA
Turning a declined life insurance application into an approval is usually not that hard. It’s how I make a living. But I have to admit that turning a decline from Allstate into a preferred plus approval through one of my companies is kind of like laying down a...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 22, 2013 | application process, decline, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, over 50 life insurance
For the most part medical records are what they, unreadable scribblings interspersed with occasional labs that are fairly understandable and other kinds of test results that might make sense to a doctor, but are of no use to you or me. There is an area of life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 17, 2013 | epilepsy, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, seizure disorder
I’ve spent significant time in my career in life insurance explaining to clients and potential clients the difference between what an underwriter says and what their doctor has told them. They are often two starkly different opinions and it creates confusion...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 13, 2013 | AARP, beneficiary, compliance, contestability, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance claim process, New York Life, over 50 life insurance
I’ve decided, for the sake of us elderly folks and all of us who are related to elderly folks and anyone who gives a damn about treating people right, to get off the fence and say what I really think about AARP and their New York Life insurance plan. For those...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 7, 2013 | AARP, grace period, group life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance claim process
Have you ever had anything lost in the mail, whether going or coming? It’s not a new occurrence with the US Postal Service, but being in a business that depends on mail delivery to some extent, I’ve noticed that the amount of mail being blasted into the...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 29, 2012 | customer service, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, honesty, insurance, lapse, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, universal life
It’s one thing when a lack of customer service results in you not getting your empty coffee cup refreshed, but when a life insurance agent goes south on service and the life insurance company they represent joins them on the beach it can end in disaster. When a...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 26, 2012 | accidental death, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, contestability period, dangerous occupation life insurance, death benefit, group life insurance, insurance, life insurance, Lloyds of London
I took a call this morning that popped up a question for civilian contractors and workers in war zones that I had honestly not considered. The call was from a widow whose husband worked for a US company in Afghanistan and died while working there about six months ago...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 18, 2012 | AARP, customer service, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim
I wish I had the time to write a blog just on AARP/New York Life and their awful over 50 life insruance products and service. Since helping a couple of beneficiaries collect claims that AARP had told them they weren’t going to pay it’s obvious a person...
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