When It Makes Sense To Replace Your Life Insurance!

As I was filling out an obnoxiously lengthy New York life insurance replacement form yesterday it occurred to me that replacement, the idea of getting rid of a current policy and replacing it with a new policy has kind of gotten one of those back alley bad raps. State...

You Need Your Life Insurance When?

The old saying goes, “Lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part”. But there are times, especially with business life insurance where all the planning in the world is derailed by the unforeseen and you need an agent who...

Back To The Future! The Short Version.

Life insurance companies are so burdened with their responsibility to clients to underwrite them fairly and offer the best price possible, and their responsibility to share holders to maximize profits by bringing in new business (competition) and cutting expenses...

Medical Professionals and Prescription Drug Abuse!

Abuse of prescription drugs has been a growing problem for a few decades now and life insurance underwriters have tried to balance their reaction of this abuse with alcohol abuse and illegal drug abuse. For the most part the underwriting mirrors that of other...

Redefining Life Insurance Standards?

Call AXA life insurance customer service sometime at 800-877-6810 and hear,”Welcome to AXA Life Service Center WHERE WE CONTINUE TO REDEFINE STANDARDS”. The question immediately comes to mind for me, knowing the track record of AXA, wouldn’t they be...

How Businesses Outlive Their Founders!

For those of us who own businesses at some point the question pops into our mind, “what happens to the company when I die”? If it doesn’t cross our minds, I assure you it will cross your spouse’s mind and at least the mind of the employees who...

Breast Cancer Underwriting All Over The Map!

I am currently shopping for life insurance for a 50 year old nurse who had breast cancer in 2001. She had a lumpectomy and there was “a very small amount of cancer cells” found in one of the sentinel lymph nodes checked. Because of the lymph node she was...