by Ed Hinerman | Jul 13, 2016 | budget, Independent agent, indexed universal life, insurance, lapse, life insurance, life insurance lapse
Over the years the most common reason I’ve seen for life insurance lapsing is that 1. The life insurance agent didn’t ask or didn’t care what your budget was or 2. You didn’t know or didn’t care what your budget was. I know it seems kind...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 12, 2015 | approval, assumptions, budget, cash value, conversion, Conversion to a permanent product, death benefit, guarantee, indexed universal life, insurance, life insurance, no lapse guarantee, rate increase, term insurance, universal life, whole life
I think I’m finally coming to grips with the fact that the life insurance learning curve isn’t really a curve. It’s more the path of a tether ball. It goes round and round, changing speed, direction and attitude with each full turn and then, BANG, it...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 28, 2014 | business life insurance, cash value, guaranteed level premium, income replacement, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
I know that the permanent life insurance guys would like you to believe that your need for life insurance might grow as you age or at least stay the same, but the facts of life really point in the opposite direction. Life insurance needs generally become smaller as...
by Ed Hinerman | May 6, 2014 | conversion, Conversion to a permanent product, customer service, insurance, life insurance, lifetime guaranteed UL, loyal customers, no lapse guarantee, West Coast Life
If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would be writing a blog talking about the end of one of the most important features of a term life insurance policy, the ability to convert to a permanent life insurance policy, I would have probably laughed at the idea....
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 6, 2013 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, variable universal life, whole life
I was following a conversation in another blog a few days ago and one guy’s opinion was that term life insurance isn’t worth the paper it’s written on because, according to him, only 1.7% of term life insurance policies ever pay an actual claim. The...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 1, 2012 | estate taxes, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, no lapse guarantee, over 50 life insurance, rate increase, universal life
I get calls every once in a while from people whose spouse or parent is literally terminally ill and many times imminently terminal. I think they know the answer already but I understand that they see what’s coming and they know it’s going to be a financial hit and,...
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 | Sep 26, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance
Here we go again with the economy and all of our investments. Just as I did a few years ago I need to dust off a bit useful suggestion and reach out again. Investment counselors are trained to say that the market is cyclical and that you shouldn’t freak out in...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 27, 2011 | AARP, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, no exam
I know that you know that I seem to have a real case of the can’t shut ups when it comes to the New York Life / AARP life insurance program, but AARP is so in the face of our country and especially the elderly among us, well, it’s become kind of personal....
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2011 | AIG, conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I’ve always been an advocate of buying a term life insurance length, or multiple term insurance policies that reflect your actual life insurance needs with different term lengths. Due to some recent changes in conversion options I am considering an amendment to...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, universal life
The life insurance industry made a big deal of the year 2000 and the impending monster changes in the term life insurance pricing that were just waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square. They even came up with a special name for the event, Triple X. The whole...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 3, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
No, really!! That was the front page headline on and industry publication I get called Insurancenewsnet Magazine. Without even opening up the magazine I know where the rant is headed. Never in the history of estate planning has there been more opportunity to be as...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 2, 2010 | Banner Life, conversion, insurance, life insurance
I have always been an advocate of buying a term length, or multiple term policies that reflect your actual life insurance needs with different term lengths. Due to some recent changes in conversion options I am considering an amendment to my recommendation. It all...
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