Is The MIB The Life Insurance Bad Guy Or Good Guy?
Second only to life insurance agents for being blasphemed by the life insurance buying public is the Medical Information Bureau, or MIB. The MIB is a super warehouse of health and lifestyle information gathered from life insurance applications as they are processed by member companies, and yes, when you sign the application you give the ...read more
Do Life Insurance Underwriters Have Emotions?
I know I go through some weeks sure that all life insurance underwriters are kind of mechanical. They look at the records and the labs and look in their underwriting guide and stamp the appropriate approval on it and then on to the next. No emotions. Just the facts ma’am! But then a day rolls ...read more
The Quickest Route To Non Smoking Life Insurance Rates!
I had a call today from a couple who had stepped up to the plate a little over two years ago when they decided it was time to have a baby and they quit smoking. Now these weren’t real serious cigarette smokers, maybe smoking one in the evening or if they were out with friends ...read more
Best Smoking Rates On Life Insurance!
As independent life insurance agents there is a kind of longing for the good old days when US Financial offered non smoking rates to social smokers and when CNA would issue a policy to a smoker at non smoking rates, with the caveat that they had to quit smoking within four years. Those two deals ...read more
What If Your Life Insurance Agent Asks You To Lie?
Let me answer the question first and then go on to explain. Tell the agent NO and go find an agent that can deal with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have been helping a client with type 1 diabetes get life insurance. He had been declined by one of ...read more
Change Isn’t Happening At Zander Insurance!
Dave Ramsey still swears that Zander Insurance is the place to get the best deal on term life insurance. “Use Zander’s online quoting system to search for the most competitive term life insurance plans available”, Dave says. I have a lot of respect for Dave Ramsey. His advice has changed my life personally and I ...read more
How Is Zander Doing For All Of Us Dave Ramsey Fans These Days?
I got in a bit of a tiff with Zander Insurance Group about a year and a half ago over, at that time, their not showing the best preferred smoker rates when their clients were getting on line quotes. Being a long time Dave Ramsey fan and moderator for his Financial Peace University at our ...read more
Seven Reasons For Thinking About What You Say!
I was reading an article on MSN Health yesterday about how to talk to your doctor. It struck me that the same things would hold true for how to talk to a life insurance (or health insurance) agent. It also reminded me of previous posts where I’ve talked about how the average medical records are ...read more
Sorry Honey!! It Was Life Insurance Or Quit Smoking!!
Let’s just cut to the chase on this subject. Men who smoke very often don’t carry life insurance because smokers have to pay, in general, 3-4 times more than a non smoker of comparable health. They have decided that the extra premium means life insurance isn’t happening when the truth is that what they pay ...read more
Life Insurance Treatment Of Marijuana!
Life insurance has this whole little underwriting niche that comes under the heading of lifestyle. It’s not about health or family history and it’s not about your lab results, it’s about, well, your personal life. Probably the most common lifestyle issue that catches people by surprise when they apply for life insurance is their driving ...read more
