That Stranger Than Fiction Side Of Life Insurance Companies!
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 there as something that makes no sense at all and ...read more
Backdating Life Insurance Can Save Money, But It Can’t Fix Stupid!
If you’re in your 30′s life insurance backdating is not an issue that you probably need to know about or even consider simply because, at your age, the cost of insurance doesn’t change much, if any, from year to year as you get older. Not so when you’re talking about vintage over 50 life insurance ...read more
They Just Keep On Coming!
Can you feel it building? It started as a trickle around the first of the year with the announcement that a few companies were considering either discontinuing or raising the rates on the universal life no lapse guarantee products. It didn’t take any huge leap of assumption to see that this was going to impact ...read more
Lincoln National Breaks Barrier On Prostate Cancer!
With life insurance companies there has always been something of a line in the sand when underwriting prostate cancer history. That line has hung on the grade of the cancer as determined by the Gleason score. I’ve often described the Gleason score grading system for prostate cancer as being akin to the Richter scale for ...read more
