by Ed Hinerman | Feb 3, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, mortality risk
Understand that there isn’t anything I like about investor owned life insurance. Now matter how you sugar coat it someone or some institution with a profit margin has a vested interest, not in my life but in my death. That’s just creepy. My nephew came to...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 2, 2010 | insurance, life insurance
Sometimes I get the sense that doctors are very careful about making their patients uneasy for fear they will run off and get a second opinion and forget to pay for the first one. I have a client who had an echocardiogram last year and one of the results that was...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 1, 2010 | family history, heart attack, insurance, life insurance
Family history is one of those issues that just isn’t much fun to explain and frankly, from a life insurance underwriting standpoint, is a little hard to make a mortality risk case for more often than not. Now I’ll give the actuaries the benefit of the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 1, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
As noted last week a major A+ rated life insurance company has broken into uncharted waters by offering preferred plus (best rate class) rates for private pilots that are not instrument rated. And that’s just the tip of the good news iceberg. It gets even better...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 30, 2010 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
I went for a drive yesterday. The mountains are all snow packed and it was just one of those wonderful post storm days when, well, you just feel blessed to live in the Rockies. I sometimes (almost all of the time) get locked in my own little world in my office. Not...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 28, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
So many life insurance companies have come so close, but none have ever stepped off the edge and done it. Preferred plus rates with no extra charge for private pilots who don’t have an instrument rating. ING Reliastar came out with their preferred plus and a...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 27, 2010 | conversion, insurance, life insurance
I just completed a conversion of a term insurance policy for a client who truly didn’t have any other options. Having shopped the world, due to a particularly aggressive prostate cancer, we weren’t able to wrote a new policy for him. His term insurance was...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 26, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
Just like any life insurance policy, a policy that is taken out for the purposes of charitable giving, whether it’s for your church or your university, has to be reviewed annually. Too often there’s a big commotion around setting up a trust and getting a...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 25, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, whole life
A client of mine asked me an interesting question over the weekend about the status of whole life insurance cash value as an asset. His question was whether it was protected from lawsuit judgments? This question came because he had been approached by an agency that...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 23, 2010 | insurance, life insurance
Medical records should be an accurate account of each visit, test or procedure and nothing else…emphasis on accurate. The problem is that there really is no appreciation in the medical business for just how much damage can be done from medical record inaccuracy....
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 22, 2010 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 2 diabetes
I was considering just re-posting some old information about life insurance underwriting of diabetes, but let’s just hash our way through it. There is new information and new opportunities that wouldn’t have been there even a year ago. Let’s save...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 21, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, no exam
I got a letter (bulk rate) from Garden State Life today. I had inquired some time back just to find out how bad their “no exam” life insurance offer was. I like to keep abreast of the hardly ever changing difference between what life insurance will cost if...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 21, 2010 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, West Coast Life
The reversal in direction and trend that started at the first of last year is continuing with West Coast Life being the most recent to announce that term insurance rates will be increasing. I’m not overly concerned about the term rate increase but I do continue...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 20, 2010 | family history, insurance, life insurance
I just spoke with a prospective client who applied for a term life insurance policy through a friend of a friend….He had been to my site before but had decided to give this agent a try. His only issue is that a parent died from cancer at age 59. With the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 19, 2010 | conversion, insurance, life insurance
I’ve often talked about the conversion option being the gold nugget hidden in term life insurance policies. Simply put the option allows you to convert all or part of your policy to permanent coverage without evidence of insurability. I’ve also often...
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