by Ed Hinerman | Jun 20, 2012 | Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, high net worth, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life
I received an update on new foreign national life insurance underwriting guidelines today from one of the country’s largest life insurance companies. They announced a liberalization of requirements for Mexican and Canadian citizens. From past posts you would...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 11, 2012 | conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life, West Coast Life
I have tried to reach out to all of my clients that have been consumed by Protective Life over the years. Empire General, West Coast Life, Federal Kemper, Zurich Kemper, Chase and on and on to let them know that when Protective Life got all of those term life...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 26, 2012 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
My mother never told me running a small business was easy. In fact it went something more like, “wouldn’t you be better off getting a real job?” I wrote that in 2007, one of the first posts to this forum. I have been self employed since 1978, most of...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 23, 2012 | conversion, death benefit, estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I thought it would be good to revisit some of the original posts on this forum. It’s been over 5 years and somewhere near a million words now and I wanted to see if I’m like a politician and flip flop on issues, or as I found in a few cases, the issues...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 3, 2012 | conversion, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, West Coast Life, whole life
If I’ve gone a month in the last three years without talking about conversion options and the mean spirited way some life insurance companies have treated it, forgive me. There is nothing I am quite so passionate about as beating the ugly truth completely to...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 8, 2012 | estate tax attorney, estate taxes, financial adviser, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
What do estate tax attorneys and financial planners have in common? Short,fat and bald? Maybe but not the answer I’m alluding to. They’re both working to keep the money you make in your family! Another good answer but still not quite where I was headed....
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 1, 2012 | application process, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
Our office has always been about getting the job done for our life insurance clients and getting a policy in force as soon as possible. I could probably be labeled a little obsessive compulsive about the application process, but I believe my logic is sound....
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2012 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, travel insurance
With the introduction several years ago of 30 year term insurance and no lapse guarantee universal life, which is essentially a term for life, some agents have lost sight of the fact that there are legitimate short term needs for life insurance. It wasn’t that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 20, 2012 | Dave Ramsey, Depression, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
SAVE 70% ON LIFE INSURANCE. How often have we seen that little advertising flower bloom on our computer screens. I’ve explained in the past that there really isn’t any magic to that. The spread between the best priced life insurance companies and the worst...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 14, 2012 | Independent agent, ING Reliastar, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
For a lot of years the state of New York was almost anti social about life insurance. Difficult to the point where a large number of very good life insurance companies that do business in every other state wouldn’t jump through the hoops required in New York....
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 30, 2011 | Infinite banking, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
I was talking with a life insurance agent friend of mine the other day. He had called to ask me about my ongoing research and interest in the infinite banking or being your own banker concept. He thought there was another route I might want to look at. This agent...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 20, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I would be the first to insinuate that the agent that sold that term policy to you has a better chance of being in another profession now than not. Good reality check. When was the last time they called you just to let you know they are there if you need them? Far too...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 12, 2011 | business life insurance, Infinite banking, International Business insurance, term insurance
I know that when I am shopping for something, for instance a car, I am very straight forward, even blunt, about what I want and how much I am willing to spend. I let the sales person know that it’s OK if they can’t meet my needs, but that changing anything...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 5, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life, West Coast Life
As West Coast Life dips slowly below the sunset, absorbed by their sister company Protective Life, I can only say, well, I actually can’t say it. Never has a company deserved to come to an end more than West Coast Life. Please don’t think these words have...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 4, 2011 | Infinite banking, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life
I confessed last week that I may have finally found something less than dreadful to say about whole life insurance. This day that no one ever saw coming, came through the back door a few weeks ago when I got a call asking specifically for a quote on a participating...
Recent Comments