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 | Jan 20, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Anyone who has perused more than one of my blog posts knows that I am a huge advocate of annual reviews. I know this is a practice that has been abused by a lot of agents as a way to “just check in”, but really “sell you something else or...
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 | Nov 12, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
It hasn’t been that long ago that life insurance for private pilots cost just the same as for every other person with their same health. The only downside to those good old days was that life insurance companies excluded aviation life insurance coverage. It...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 5, 2010 | flight instructor, life insurance, private pilots
Not too long ago I outlined several private aviation life insurance underwriting changes that Prudential had made, almost all of them in favor of the pilots. Included in those changes was underwriting for private pilots of experimental or home built aircraft without a...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 29, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Buying life insurance can be so easy today that it’s just crazy compared to 30 years ago. If you’re healthy and don’t have any dangerous hobbies you can quickly and easily get the family protection you need from one of the big on line agencies, a...
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 | 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 | Jun 29, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Prudential Life recently took two steps forward and one step back in their underwriting treatment of private pilots. First they took a bold step forward in their underwriting of owners of experimental and home built aircraft. The pre-change underwriting was very clear...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 24, 2010 | AARP, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has held themselves out as the private pilot’s friend for a long time, the advocate, the go to organization, the one stop shop for all of your needs. For all I know they may in fact be the shining star they claim to...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 5, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots, Sleep apnea
There is a tendency for people to just hold on to life insurance once it is in force, even when opportunities to improve on the rate or the term length come up. Most often this happens when their isn’t a servicing agent around to find the better deals and...
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