by Ed Hinerman | Jan 12, 2009 | Depression, diabetes, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Shopping for life insurance is no big trick if you’re healthy, young and boring. This is the one area where the giant on line agencies may actually provide good service. Anything more complicated than young, healthy and boring is definitely where the services of...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 14, 2008 | blood pressure, cholesterol, Depression, diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, long term care, private pilots, stroke
You know the rates I’m talking about. You see them advertised everywhere and it makes it seem as though life insurance is almost free, simply there for the picking. In the industry those rates are called things like preferred plus, preferred elite, select...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 29, 2008 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Oshkosh is wall to wall private pilots this week. It’s a week long fest of vintage planes, shows, and even the much anticipated Martin Jetpack kicking things off with it’s first public flight. Life insurance will be well represented I’m sure, but...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 16, 2008 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
A question that comes up fairly frequently is whether a person who takes up a new hobby, not knitting, but something more daring like flying, skydiving or the like, needs to take out a new life insurance policy in order to be covered. This is a fair and prudent...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 3, 2008 | cholesterol, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, smoking
It is a common belief that a life insurance agent’s offer of an annual review of your policy is nothing more than a ploy to try to get you to buy more insurance. I know from experience with my own clients that many are so sales phobic that their honest belief is...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 11, 2008 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, scuba diving, skydiving
Whenever I do an initial interview with a life insurance client we always touch on “avocation” questions, the dangerous hobby thing. In general the life insurance underwriter wants to know if you are actively increasing your mortality experience by having...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 3, 2008 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Just as a practical matter the underwriting of private aviation may have to be reviewed. One of the guidelines that most companies have historically used is annual hours flown. Typically a company wants to see annual hours at or above 26. With the price of all fuel...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 1, 2008 | heart attack, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, stroke
I was having a discussion with a private pilot concerning life insurance one day. This particular pilot had been a client for some time and a few year earlier had suffered something akin to a stroke. The FAA had pulled his license after the incident. He was calling to...
by Ed Hinerman | May 24, 2008 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Whether you fly for the big boys like Net Jets and Executive Jet Management, or some smaller group, there has been a move in the life insurance industry to charge you more than other ATP rated pilots. I won’t be long winded about this. If you have had that...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 2, 2008 | DUI, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
If you want to get a life insurance underwriter’s attention, talk about your history of alcohol or drug abuse. Tell them about your DUI or history of DUI’s. A good independent agent is going to ask about any history of alcohol abuse, treatment for alcohol or drug...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 13, 2008 | bipolar disorder, cancer, Depression, diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
I’ve often discussed the fact that out of the nearly 2000 companies that purport to be in the life insurance business, there are only a handful, maybe 2% that are serious about working to get you the best deal. When you throw in health issues of any consequence...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 28, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Private aviation, especially with the rising cost of fuel, has been hit hard in one of the areas that life insurance underwriters look at closely, proficiency. In this case proficiency really comes down to flying enough hours that each new flight isn’t liking...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 26, 2007 | children's life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
There are nearly 2000 companies in the US that purport to be life insurance companies. When you work your way through all of the “sort of’s” and “wanna be’s”, and get down to those companies that are serious about the products they...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 21, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
I follow Adam Aircraft with particular interest because their planes are built not too far from here in Colorado and also because George Adam is a life insurance client of mine from a time when we (Bill Fanning from the Pilot Insurance Center assisted me)Â had to...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 19, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
A little more than 6 years after 9/11, private pilots can once again land at Reagan Washington National airport…………sort of. The first landing since private aviation was banned into the airport happened today. The pilot was treated to a free...
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