by Ed Hinerman | Aug 18, 2010 | AARP, insurance, life insurance, senior life insurance, term insurance, whole life
When a person gets into their 60’s, 70’s and above there is a real life insurance industry tendency to try to shove them into the final expense market, even at a time when people are working longer and have larger needs than most final expense policies...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 9, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
When Genworth Life and Annuity released their Colony Term/UL a few months ago it became obvious that something was up, or down. With insurance companies raising the prices on term insurance for the last year and a half, this new product overcame some obstacle that...
by Ed Hinerman | May 21, 2010 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I’m working with a new client who ran head long into an all too common source of being declined for life insurance, company sponsored group life insurance. Her issue? Arguably one of the mildest cases of bipolar disorder I’ve worked on. To be sure, almost...
by Ed Hinerman | May 19, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
Genworth Life and Annuity recently unveiled its’ new “Term/UL” product, a term life insurance policy in a lot of ways that seems to have some advantages and disadvantages for consumers and for Genworth. How is it the same as a traditional term...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 6, 2010 | Banner Life, conversion, insurance, life insurance
Over the past several months I have had a running dialog in this forum with the vice president of a major life insurance company. In question was that company’s decision to replace their no lapse guarantee UL as an option for conversion with a universal life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 27, 2010 | conversion, insurance, life insurance
I just completed a conversion of a term insurance policy for a client who truly didn’t have any other options. Having shopped the world, due to a particularly aggressive prostate cancer, we weren’t able to wrote a new policy for him. His term insurance was...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 21, 2010 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, West Coast Life
The reversal in direction and trend that started at the first of last year is continuing with West Coast Life being the most recent to announce that term insurance rates will be increasing. I’m not overly concerned about the term rate increase but I do continue...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 19, 2010 | conversion, insurance, life insurance
I’ve often talked about the conversion option being the gold nugget hidden in term life insurance policies. Simply put the option allows you to convert all or part of your policy to permanent coverage without evidence of insurability. I’ve also often...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 18, 2010 | life insurance, term insurance
Term life insurance offers a guaranteed level death benefit and a guaranteed level premium for certain period of years, the term. Is there a chance you could outlive that term and spend the money it took to keep your policy in force without the policy paying out a...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 24, 2009 | conversion, insurance, life insurance
I’ve truly gotten a sense of what a love/hate relationship is all about with West Coast Life. They are, in so many areas, one of the best companies in the business for fair and flexible underwriting. I love that since most of my clients need above average...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 18, 2009 | accelerated death benefit, conversion, insurance, life insurance
Term life insurance is a product that is sprinkled with gold nuggets that make it so much more than it appears on the surface. The great news is that the nuggets are part of the policy and are not added on at an extra cost. One of those nuggets that I often take for...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 23, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, no exam
I got an application in the mail yesterday from a Garden State Life It came with a (dang it) non-negotiable sample death benefit check and all of the emotional verbiage they could come up with in order to convince you to act now and don’t take time to check out...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 19, 2009 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, West Coast Life
A little over a week ago I wrote a post about my email conversation with West Coast Life concerning their decision to do away with fully guaranteed conversion products. I was a bit put off when I got an out of the office email from the marketing vice president...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 8, 2009 | conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance
I am and always will be all about guarantees in life insurance. The job it is purchased for is simply far to important to leave up to the whims of the economy or the company. In the absence of contractually guaranteed rates, the company has the right to change your...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 1, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
I would be the last person in the world to say that habits are easy to change, especially bad, life long, ingrained habits. But no kidding, there are some cases I really can’t wrap my mind around. The one that caught my “you’ve got to be...
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