by Ed Hinerman | May 16, 2012 | Dave Ramsey, Depression, insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
I am about to go off on Selectquote again but let me show you the new kinder, gentler side of my opinionated self. Selectquote handles, from what I’ve heard, about 100,000 applications a year. They’ve been the king of the hill for quite a while so that...
by Ed Hinerman | May 15, 2012 | children's life insurance, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, senior life insurance
I’ve talked about life insurance from one end of life to another, from insurance for children to senior life insurance. The one common denominator is that if someone doesn’t take any action to put life insurance in force there is absolutely no way their...
by Ed Hinerman | May 14, 2012 | contestability, death benefit, insurance, life insurance
There is probably no more misunderstood part of a life insurance policy than the contestability or incontestability period. This is the two year period beginning with the date the policy goes in force during which a company can review the underwriting and pull...
by Ed Hinerman | May 10, 2012 | Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
Some years ago, like 7 or 8 years, I tried doing some on line trading of stocks. After a couple of months it was obvious I was horrible at it so I hung up my trading software and haven’t been back. To this day I still get calls from stock brokers who always...
by Ed Hinerman | May 8, 2012 | Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, liver functions
As much as I run across this, it’s sad to know that there are probably as many inaccurate life insurance quotes given each day as there are accurate life insurance quotes. The reason is that most life insurance agents don’t know how the underwriting works...
by Ed Hinerman | May 5, 2012 | AARP, final expense life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, senior life insurance
I just got my monthly reminder from AARP that I have not yet purchased that life insurance through the AARP Life insurance program that I inquired about 5 years ago, and I haven’t talked about senior life insurance or final expense life insurance for a while so...
by Ed Hinerman | May 5, 2012 | conversion, customer service, insurance, life insurance, Protective Life, West Coast Life
Heck no! That would lower them to the level of, well, most of corporate America. Before I throw too big a noose here let me say that there are some life insurance companies that are absolutely oozing integrity. If they ever do something wrong they do whatever it takes...
by Ed Hinerman | May 2, 2012 | accidental death, Active Duty Military Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance claim, Lincoln National, Met Life
A colleague and I were bemoaning some of stranger than fiction nonsense that life insurance companies come up with. They always tout these things as the newest innovation to speed up underwriting, the best product idea since sliced bread, or they just leave it out...
by Ed Hinerman | May 1, 2012 | business life insurance, court ordered life insurance, DUI, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance
If life and life insurance was all simple there wouldn’t be any bumps in the road. We would all have the coverage we need when we need it and Dorothy would be singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow in the background. Truth is that most of the time with 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 24, 2012 | guarantee, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, universal life, variable universal life
It’s an interesting view from here. I’m not sure what the equivalent would be for someone who doesn’t write almost daily for years. Maybe just looking back at pictures of how you’ve changed? I’ve picked out half a dozen blog posts from...
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 18, 2012 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
In some cases life insurance underwriting just hangs out and doesn’t change much over the years. That has been fairly true of prostate cancer life insurance since I wrote my first post on the subject back in 2007, until the last few months. What follows is an...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 18, 2012 | disability, insurance, life insurance
I will try my hardest to make the focus of this post life insurance, but first I need to vent. We are living in a country that used to be on a pedestal so high above the rest of the countries of the world that it was almost, well, as if we had been singled out by God...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 17, 2012 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
There have been some dramatic breakthroughs in life insurance underwriting over the past few months, a lot of it having to do with cancer life insurance underwriting. Just as these breakthroughs started there are now more rumors of companies following suit, or...
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