by Ed Hinerman | Jul 15, 2011 | AARP, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance
The life insurance industry, at least the final expense life insurance industry would certainly love for you to believe that over 50 life insurance is a minefield with disaster written all over it. Suddenly you must be perceived as a greater life insurance risk as the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 14, 2011 | final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance
I wrote an article for Agent Sales Journal in their June magazine titled, “Would you sell that to your mother?” ASJ is an industry magazine and online presence that allows agents to share their opinions. I’ve had several calls from agents since...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 15, 2011 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
I have probably been the epitome of redundancy with my non stop rant about the impact of using the wrong life insurance agent almost always leading to the wrong life insurance company which will almost always lead to the wrong result. It is unfortunately true that all...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 9, 2011 | AARP, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance
A few years ago I shopped for final expense life insurance just to see what was available and being pushed. I knew there was a propensity in the industry to push some really overpriced, under guaranteed products as senior life insurance. I just wanted to experience...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 24, 2011 | final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance
I’ve made no bones about my disdain for the way supposedly reputable life insurance companies treat us seniors. The somehow want us to believe that over 50 life insurance is suddenly different. I’ve been giving some thought to an appropriate analogy that...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 10, 2011 | final expense life insurance, life insurance, no exam, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance
When we are over 50 life insurance advertising takes on a whole new twist designed to make you believe that possibly, just possibly, you can’t qualify for insurance that requires an exam. They dangle out there life insurance with “no questions asked”...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 9, 2011 | Burial insurance, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance
There is an entire industry built around the perception that all seniors that need life insurance only need final expense life insurance or burial insurance. There’s some problems not only with the perception but the way the industry markets senior life...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2011 | guaranteed issue life insurance, insurance, life insurance, no exam, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance, term insurance, whole life
If an older person does a search for final expense life insurance, the typical policy that someone in their 60’s or 70’s might want, you could easily be led to believe that the only thing available is guaranteed issue or no exam life insurance (simplified...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 20, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
I bought my first life insurance policy when I was 33. I woke up one day with a wife and two stepchildren and realized that they were dependent on the fact that I made a pretty good income. Because we had become a family their standard of living had changed for the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, universal life
What is your definition of permanent! First thing that comes to mind for me is something that never goes away. OK. I know the earth could blow up and then all bets are off when it comes to anything attached to the earth, but let’s assume that it doesn’t...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 15, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
A long standing urban myth is that life insurance rates take a huge jump at age 50. Actually a spinoff of the myth for those in their 30’s is that it happens at 40, and for those in their 60’s at age 70, and so on. A little know fact is that under age 35...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2011 | final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance
Being over 50 myself I read that title and my mind immediately went to the thought that, “Well of course it has new meaning. We’re a lot closer to using it.” Whoa, admitted my own mortality there! But what I want to get at is the fact that the needs...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 26, 2010 | buy/sell life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
You don’t care because you’re dead, right? OK. What if you had to stick around in the rafters and watch and listen to what happens if you didn’t plan for this event. Is your family going to realize a gain from all the years you put in building the...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 30, 2010 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, senior life insurance
Preferred plus life insurance rates and type 2 diabetes are rarely used in the same sentence except possibly in the context of “Your chances of getting preferred plus rates with type 2 diabetes are slim to none”. That was until last year when ING Reliastar...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 8, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life, variable universal life, whole life
I feel a little like the boy that cried wolf and pretty soon no one is listening, but if you have a universal life, variable universal life, indexed universal life or whole life policy, the wolf is real and if you ignore it long enough it’s going to mess up your...
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