by Ed Hinerman | Jun 2, 2011 | cholesterol, insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
I get industry updates almost daily when companies believe they have a niche that is going to the the magic bullet for a client. Sometimes I wonder if anyone really thinks it through before they yell, “Hey, look at us!” I’m a big fan of United of...
by Ed Hinerman | May 13, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
So, a guy decides to learn how to fly. He wants to be a private pilot in the worst way. He signs up for lessons and after all the classroom curriculum is satisfied he and his flight instructor are finally ready to take off for the first flight. Other than the fact...
by Ed Hinerman | May 6, 2011 | life insurance, pilot, skydiving, terrorism, travel insurance
I was working with a client who posed some interesting challenges for life insurance underwriting. Although as healthy as an underwriter could hope for, he is a skydiving instructor and also a skydiving jump plane pilot. Either of those, or both of those on a life...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 27, 2011 | insurance quotes, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
I’ve never been a fan of Selectquote. Having worked (a long time ago) in a similar on line agency I know for a fact that with quantity (they claim to do 100,000 applications a year) quality suffers serious damage. The agents, if you can really call them that,...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 2, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
I was running some quotes for a client of mine a few days ago, a husband and wife private pilot team. They had inquired through AOPA, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, for group coverage and had run into several issues. Probably the most troublesome was that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 28, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
That used to be a quick and easy answer. The best life insurance rates were available only to the most experienced and trained pilots. For an airline pilot life insurance was no trick at all. For them they might as well have been a perfectly healthy car salesperson....
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 5, 2011 | life insurance, pilot, private pilots
All right guys, you can take a break. Although you could certainly buy life insurance on Sunday the last thing you want is your friends knowing you were doing something more important than football. I already know how most of you feel about life insurance. If...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 27, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
It hasn’t been that long since admitting that you were a student pilot or a flight instructor on a life insurance application was, well, might as well have been an admission that you were a bush pilot or crop duster. Most companies weren’t and actually...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 25, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
I was checking up on the competition this afternoon when it comes to private pilot life insurance. A lot has changed over the last year with several companies jumping into the hunt for a chance to insure the lives of one of the healthiest groups around, pilots. I...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 29, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
So, just what company offers the best rates if you need private pilot life insurance? How about student pilot life insurance? Or flight instructor life insurance? Airline pilots? Those answers depend on certain criteria which I’ll cover in a minute, but keep in...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 14, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
Prudential has always been somewhat aviation life insurance friendly, not always leading the way, but always in the mix for fair underwriting and good rates. It now appears they are making a serious move to capture more of the life insurance market Changes have been...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 9, 2010 | incontestability, insurance, life insurance, pilot, skydiving
There has always been a stigma attached to life insurance and life insurance companies that they really will do all they can to get out of paying a life insurance claim. People really want, on some level, to believe life insurance companies really don’t pay out...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 9, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots, Prudential
Pru rolled out a 16 page release on their new and improved underwriting guidelines in a number of areas. This comes on the heels of a much ballyhooed rate decrease that didn’t do squat for anyone under 50. Nevertheless there may be some morsels in here that will...
by Ed Hinerman | May 28, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
While the words CEO and flying may cause a little angst among some, the truth is that CEO’s are flying privately more often and whether that is on a corporately owned aircraft, a chartered jet, or their personally owned airplane, it is generally more efficient...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 15, 2009 | cancer, pilot, private pilots, stroke, student pilot, term insurance
One in six men who reach age 26 in our country will not make it to age 64. For women it is one in nine. I live in a small town in the “Heart of the Rockies”, Salida, Colorado. Around here when someone passes away, everyone knows it. When someone passes...
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