by Ed Hinerman | Mar 19, 2009 | insurance, John Hancock, life insurance, Protective Life, Prudential, term insurance, universal life, whole life
With the latest news coming today it is no longer conjecture on my part. The downward trend of the past 15 years in life insurance has hit bottom. ING Reliastar today announced increases in their term insurance rates. I guess the only good news coming from them is...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 18, 2009 | A1c, AARP, Anxiety, beneficiary, bipolar, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, bypass surgery, cancer, Dave Ramsey, Depression, diabetes, foreign travel, gastric bypass, guarantee, heart attack, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, Independent agent, insurance, key man insurance, kidnap, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, New York Life, obesity, prayer, private pilots, prostate cancer, Prudential, PSA, ransom, scuba diving, skydiving, Sleep apnea, stroke, suicide clause, suze orman, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, universal life, variable universal life, whole life, women
It’s been a fascinating couple of years. I will sum it up by saying that we have helped a lot of people get life insurance who never thought they could. And what better way to celebrate the information we’ve shared and the victories we’ve had than...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 18, 2009 | income replacement, insurance, life insurance, Protective Life, term insurance
Within the past few weeks West Coast Life and Protective Life have announced a new term insurance product that, well, may be OK for some purposes. There are definite upsides, but a few downsides from where I stand. The product’s main feature is that it...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 17, 2009 | insurance, John Hancock, life insurance, Protective Life, Prudential, term insurance, universal life
Since the end of 2008 I have been following with detail as rapidly as possible about the changes in the life insurance business. The downward trend in term insurance rates and the higher reserve requirements for universal life NLG policies are changing the landscape...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 10, 2009 | Dave Ramsey, insurance, life insurance, suze orman, term insurance
When Dave Ramsey talks about taking care of the basics, housing, food, utilities and such, he hits right at the core of what life insurance is all about. Life insurance isn’t about enriching those left behind. It’s about making sure they can live on...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 9, 2009 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
Having group life insurance through your job or organization is certainly one of the top excuses for not buying a personal life insurance policy. After all, if you already have it, why buy more. No physical. No muss or fuss, and group insurance is generally sooo...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 6, 2009 | business life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, return of premium term insurance, term insurance
In our current economic meltdown there are a lot of people out there trying to say that the government or big business are trying to run our country. What this country really runs on is small businesses and what really makes those businesses work is the owners or the...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 5, 2009 | insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, term insurance
YRT, yearly renewable term life insurance, has been around for a long time. Really the original term insurance, it has a rate that is guaranteed. Unfortunately it is guaranteed to go up substantially every year. YRT starts out with a very low first year price. For...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 3, 2009 | blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
This all went a little quicker than even I had anticipated. I shared a few weeks ago that I was applying for term life insurance on myself, a replacement of some terms that seemed prudent to extend. Because of some past health history impacting a previous application...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 3, 2009 | Protective Life, Prudential, term insurance, universal life, whole life
I’ve been blogging since the first of the year about the coming changes in universal life products that have external no lapse guarantees. Well, there’s good news and bad news on that front. The good news is that it is still available from the top...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 26, 2009 | AARP, Burial insurance, final expense life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
The idea of burial life insurance is something that has been slow to evolve and is often misunderstood. In its’ purest form it is a contract taken out with a mortuary and for an up front payment they promise that a burial is prepaid. What people should be coming...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 24, 2009 | heart attack, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
Each day brings another reason to be more impressed by just how stupid the majority of men are. If you’re a guy and don’t want to hear this, let your wife read it. Women get this stuff. I just talked to an agent friend of mine who worked with a client last...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 23, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, Prudential, term insurance, universal life, whole life
I realize that this is like one of those insurance guy things. We get all excited when some really good product is about to change (not for the better), or we get wind of a rate increase. It’s a chance to get the word out and hopefully do something good for...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 19, 2009 | AARP, conversion, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
There’s something about one of those weeks when I get 10 pieces of mail from AARP touting all of their worn out, rip off products that just makes me want to talk about it. Since my Mom doesn’t care and my wife doesn’t want to hear it again, thanks...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 15, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, prayer, term insurance
I’m always talking about others and their trials and tribulations in quest of the best life insurance rates they can find. For a change of pace I thought I would take you along on my own life insurance application adventure. I have two term insurance policies...
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