by Ed Hinerman | Mar 21, 2013 | conversion, guarantee, guaranteed level premium, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, Protective Life, term insurance, universal life, West Coast Life
Even though Protective and West Coast Life fired me years ago I still get their propaganda and that, along with an almost simultaneous run in with a Protective abusee has once again fired me up again to remind all of you out there who have Protective linked policies,...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 7, 2012 | application process, approval, conversion, guaranteed level premium, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
I’m going to make this life insurance application process seem a bit lengthy and cumbersome in explaining it, but be assured right up front that the process is neither of those if you just take some of these suggestions to heart and work right through it. In...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 18, 2012 | conversion, illustration, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, universal life
As promised in my last post this is a letter written by a 79 year old man in Ohio to the state insurance commissioner. He was sold a conversion on a term policy 10 years ago and was told by the agent that it would be a paid up, guaranteed in force forever policy, in...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 18, 2012 | assumptions, conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
I had a gentleman call me the other day to see what he could do about the mess his life insurance had ended up in. 10 years ago his agent converted his term insurance policy, at that time a Kemper policy and now a Protective Life policy. This man explained to the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 11, 2012 | cash value, conversion, financial adviser, insurance, life insurance, mortality, term insurance, universal life, whole life
A few years back I read an article in a trade publication and, well, I was much younger then and easily riled. I am still getting comments on the post I wrote about that article. In the life insurance business there is an organization called the Million Dollar Round...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 10, 2012 | cash value, conversion, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
Banner Life has and has had for some time the most competitive no lapse guarantee universal life products available. It has been a standout product in the industry because it not only guarantees a death benefit to age 121, but at no lapse UL prices it also has a cash...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 11, 2012 | conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life, West Coast Life
I have tried to reach out to all of my clients that have been consumed by Protective Life over the years. Empire General, West Coast Life, Federal Kemper, Zurich Kemper, Chase and on and on to let them know that when Protective Life got all of those term life...
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 | 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 3, 2012 | conversion, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, West Coast Life, whole life
If I’ve gone a month in the last three years without talking about conversion options and the mean spirited way some life insurance companies have treated it, forgive me. There is nothing I am quite so passionate about as beating the ugly truth completely to...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 24, 2012 | Active Duty Military Life Insurance, children's life insurance, conversion, insurance, Juvenile life insurance, life insurance
I went to war with the life insurance industry several years ago over the issue of children with impairments not having access to coverage, even at a higher rate than the standard rate they offer perfectly healthy kids. The issue came up when I shopped for life...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 25, 2012 | accelerated death benefit, conversion, customer service, guarantee, honesty, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
If good customer service cost less than bad customer service, which would you choose. Trick question, right? Let me qualify that question a little. If you knew ahead of time that you were making a major purchase that offered little or no customer service after the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 2, 2012 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
I’m on about my 15th drum now. I’ve beat so many of them to death about life insurance guarantees that I have a restraining order keeping me away from the local drum shop. Life insurance companies have been selling assumptions on whole life and universal...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 5, 2012 | accelerated death benefit, conversion, insurance, lapse, life insurance, reinstatement
A lot has changed over the past 30 some years in life insurance. Products have been invented and disposed of. Bells and whistles have been implemented and some of them have been disposed of. With a few notable exceptions though, the basic term life insurance policy...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 20, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I would be the first to insinuate that the agent that sold that term policy to you has a better chance of being in another profession now than not. Good reality check. When was the last time they called you just to let you know they are there if you need them? Far too...
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