by Ed Hinerman | Feb 5, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots, Sleep apnea
There is a tendency for people to just hold on to life insurance once it is in force, even when opportunities to improve on the rate or the term length come up. Most often this happens when their isn’t a servicing agent around to find the better deals and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 28, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
So many life insurance companies have come so close, but none have ever stepped off the edge and done it. Preferred plus rates with no extra charge for private pilots who don’t have an instrument rating. ING Reliastar came out with their preferred plus and a...
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 26, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
Just like any life insurance policy, a policy that is taken out for the purposes of charitable giving, whether it’s for your church or your university, has to be reviewed annually. Too often there’s a big commotion around setting up a trust and getting a...
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 7, 2010 | AARP, insurance, life insurance
January 7 and I have already received several emails and a mailing from AARP basically asking me if I have somehow missed the last 200 attempts to get me to buy life insurance from them. I see the way my Mom trusts AARP, not a view shared by my Dad when he was still...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 28, 2009 | beneficiary, insurance, life insurance
I got a call from the daughter of a man who had asked me to send him an application for life insurance back in 2003 today. She wanted to know if I could help her track down the policy as he had recently passed away and the application they had found in his paperwork...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 28, 2009 | cholesterol, HDL, insurance, life insurance
Life insurance underwriting is kind of like sand dunes. You can take a picture at the beginning of a year and it can be absolutely clear where every grain of sand lies. The exact same picture taken at the end of the year could easily have been taken on another planet....
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 23, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
From a life insurance perspective. Heck, from just about any perspective this has been one crazy year. But the sky didn’t fall and I think it’s time we put it all in perspective and move on. Term life insurance prices have been in something of a free fall...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 3, 2009 | bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I wrote my first United of Omaha life insurance application in 1978. Those were the days of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, Marlin Perkins and the advent of yearly renewable term insurance. They were a powerhouse company back then with all captive agents and a...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 23, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I watched Dennis the Menace the other night and early on in that film it was clear that Mr Wilson would have preferred to have $100,000 in his pocket and no Dennis as a neighbor. That’s probably a bit harsh, but the answer as to why he couldn’t have that...
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 26, 2009 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I’ve talked recently about the United of Omaha “Fit test” crediting program where a person’s health habits and lifestyle can help reduce the price of their life insurance. Well, they bowled a strike on a bipolar disorder term insurance case I...
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 14, 2009 | cholesterol, insurance, life insurance
Ahh, the less than perfect approval on your life insurance application. The temptation to take your bat and ball and go home and never play again. The desire to get back back at the company by not purchasing life insurance and not providing protection for your family....
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