by Ed Hinerman | Mar 9, 2019 | buy/sell life insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
original post 12/2014, updated 3/2019 Not having business life insurance on a partner can create a devastating loss for a company. But, I don’t want to trivialize the need for personal life insurance. Not having a plan in place to patch the giant hole left when...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 6, 2019 | life insurance, life insurance approval, no exam
Before everyone jumps on this no exam life insurance offer, and I get a call from everyone who wants life insurance but doesn’t have time for an exam, let me preface the good news with this…excellent health is a must. The company making this offer also...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 28, 2019 | life insurance
Until artificial intelligence gets to the point where we can just think life insurance in force, we’re stuck with three options. You still have to apply for life insurance so make a choice: easy, easier, or frustrating. It’s your choice but I am all for...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 23, 2019 | business life insurance, life insurance
original post 3/2014, updated 2/2019 Why is business partnership life insurance so important? We’re going to be focusing on business applications of life insurance through several posts and how the lack of life insurance can be a disaster and how using the wrong...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 5, 2018 | business life insurance, Cannabis business life insurance, CEO life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
For the next few weeks I am going to pick apart and try to make sense of business life insurance in all of its’ different forms. Just like personal life insurance, business life insurance is meant to take the burden off of a company in the same way that personal...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 6, 2018 | atrial fibrillation, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
So, BNP (natriuretic peptide). What the heck is it? In layman’s terms (so I can understand it), BNP is a protein release by the heart that could indicate congestive heart failure. But listen up all of you life insurance underwriters……It could mean a...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 5, 2018 | insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, medical records life insurance, Sleep apnea
If the Wall St Journal was doing an article on life insurance applications and how underwriters interpret your medical records they would have their hands full. Without exaggerating most medical records contain errors and ambiguous notes. To be fair to the...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 5, 2018 | life insurance, life insurance approval
Less than 1% of life insurance companies truly underwrite an application for someone with serious health conditions and take more than just that condition into account. There are rumors or urban myths that if you have a serious health condition, whether that is...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 13, 2018 | business life insurance, Cannabis business life insurance, CEO life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
It’s what we’re all looking for when we finally get around to the task of acquiring life insurance, a great deal. For each of us that can be defined differently. For many of my clients just finding a company that will approve a life insurance policy is a...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 21, 2018 | cash value, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, universal life
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article titled, “Universal Life Insurance, a 1980s Sensation, Has Backfired”. Now I have become keenly aware over the years that very few people really take my blog to heart unless the run into a post that is an...
by Ed Hinerman | May 2, 2018 | bait and switch, impaired risk life insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance underwriting, Protective Life
I’ve had several questions about the new Protective Life offering of life insurance through Costco. One client emailed, “So, I wanted to run something by you. My husband and I were in Costco on Friday and they had an insurance booth set up. The company...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 10, 2018 | business life insurance, CEO life insurance, Foreign National Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I am still shaking my head over the news I got today from the last bastion of reasonable foreign national life insurance underwriting. Most US life insurance companies had gone south in this niche a few years ago, heading their life insurance guidelines for foreign...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 29, 2018 | business life insurance, Ex Patriot life insurance, Foreign National Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance
The picture keeps getting brighter for the four categories of international and foreign national life insurance. The first is Americans living abroad, whether ex-patriots, missionaries or retirees. The second is foreign nationals living in the US who are still...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2018 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, HIV business life insurance, HIV life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Having just placed a $9 million business life insurance key man policy, I can tell you that the welcome mat is out for those in business or for personal needs who have well controlled HIV. It’s no secret that being HIV+ has changed medically with, in many cases,...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 13, 2018 | Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, high net worth, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance
As requirements grow tighter with most US based life insurance companies we have one carrier who goes above and beyond to meet the life insurance needs of those who reside outside the United States, whether foreign nationals or ex-patriots. Virtually all other US life...
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