by Ed Hinerman | Mar 18, 2015 | application process, approval, business life insurance, cancer, conversion, coronary artery disease (CAD), decline, exclusions, guaranteed level premium, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
A client I’m working with is getting a little frustrated because, in order to keep his obligations, he is going to have to convert a current term policy coming to the end of its’ guaranteed level premium period. When I say he is going to have to do this...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 10, 2012 | customer service, decline, executives, financial adviser, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, term insurance
The CEO of a Denver based company contacted me today. He was shopping for life insurance and because he was a private pilot with almost no current flight time, as in none for 4 years, he was getting quotes that were through the roof. When you need millions in life...
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 | 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 | 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 | Dec 5, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life, West Coast Life
As West Coast Life dips slowly below the sunset, absorbed by their sister company Protective Life, I can only say, well, I actually can’t say it. Never has a company deserved to come to an end more than West Coast Life. Please don’t think these words have...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 21, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, Lincoln National, over 50 life insurance, rate increase, term insurance, universal life
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 6, 2011 | accelerated death benefit, conversion, insurance, life insurance
A few days ago I was on a bit of a rip over the subjects of conversion privileges and how far too many companies are changing products offered to non guaranteed UL’s, rather than permanent products. The answer lies somewhere in a slight of hand the companies are...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 23, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance
I contacted the NAIC, National Association of Insurance Commissioners about the general issue of consumer abuse through conversion option changes. A trusted source at the NAIC was kind enough to reply and ask me to send specific questions “Thanks so much for...
by Ed Hinerman | May 3, 2011 | conversion, insurance, West Coast Life
After months of debating just how badly West Coast Life was treating its’ long time term insurance customers I was finally told that I wasn’t able to represent them anymore. That was last year. During those months Greg Zabel, some kind of a vice president...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 24, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, senior life insurance
Don’t you just hate the fact that hindsight is 20/20 and when you look back with clear vision you see that you waltzed right past some of the deals of the decade? Hasn’t happened to you? YET! With very few exceptions people who look at conversion quotes on...
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