A Good Deal, or Another Unethical Scam?


We’ve written before about both variable annuities and stranger-owned life insurance (SOLI), but some enterprising (?) investor types have figured out a new twist that combines these seemingly disparate vehicles:

Terminal Illness? $2,000 in CASH, Immediately Available.” … “He recruited dozens of terminally ill people to, in effect, serve as paid fronts for purchases of the product, variable

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Why Is the US Life Insurance Observing Falling Sales? | Best …


LIMRA International have said this is the greatest decline since 1942 over the last six months for US life insurance. Stock connected investments such as.

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Survey: Life insurance one of safer financial products available


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The Need for Life Insurance – Just Ask Ann Landers


lifeinsurancenoexam.biz is holding its $100 Writing Contest to demonstrate the need for life insurance.  Entrants are writing about the impact of life insurance on family, friends, or clients.  If Ann Landers was still alive, we’re sure she would have loved this contest.  Take a look at some of her columns on the subject –

Here’s one column reprinted by Prudential entitled The Importance of Life Insurance.

And here’s a response to that letter.

Widower wishes he had prepared for the worst

Dear Ann Landers: I am a male reader who is very much interested in the letter signed “Finding My Way in Tampa.” The writer was saying how important it is to have life insurance. Please let your readers know that it is a good idea for a man to carry life insurance on his wife, whether or not she works outside the home.
Several years ago, my wife died of breast cancer, leaving me a widower at the age of 35. We had two children, 6 and 8 years of age. I did not have life insurance on my wife. Fortunately, I had enough savings to take care of the funeral and burial expenses without borrowing, but there wasn’t much left over.
I soon discovered I could not provide the stable home-life environment that my wife had supplied, and went through one child-care provider after another. I had to cut way back on my working hours, which did not endear me to my employer and co-workers when they had to pick up the slack. I became dependent on a lot of people for a long time.
My advice is this: Both spouses should get life insurance policies that will enable either one to maintain the independence and lifestyle he or she has today, in case tragedy strikes. It seems my experience with the untimely death of my wife is becoming all too common.
— J.A. in Pensacola, Fla.
Dear Pensacola: No one can sound a warning as effectively as someone who has “been there,” and you certainly have. The idea that a wife who is a homemaker should be covered by insurance may seem like a needless luxury, but you have pointed out that it could be a godsend. Thank you on behalf of all my readers who heard your wake-up call.

Take a look at another Dear Ann Landers about the importance of life insurance.
And here’s another-

Life insurance is money well spent

Dear Ann Landers:
I am a 48-year-old widow with four children.  My husband died suddenly of a heart attack last year.  Needless to say, this has been a very difficult time, but thanks to my husband’s loving foresight our family is doing well.
Throughout all the years of our marriage, in spite of tight budgets and financial difficulties, he maintained substantial life insurance policies on both his life and mine.  Even with my fulltime job, I would not have been able to manage had it not been for his insurance money.  At least our children’s grief over the death of their father was not compounded by the loss of their home and friends.
I am shocked by the number of women who have told me in confidence that they are concerned because their husbands have little or no life insurance.  They have two cars, a boat, and costly vacations.  They give their children music lessons, dancing lessons and orthodontic braces, but they ignore the possibility of what their children would do if the principal breadwinner were to die or become disabled.
Many people have small insurance coverage through their work and believe it is enough.  They need to wake up, Ann.  It cost me $15,000 just to bury my husband.  I’d hate to think of where I would be now if that dear man hadn’t loved us enough to make sure we were provided for after his death. – Carol in Martinez, Calif.
Dear Carol:

If ever there was a wake-up call, your letter is it.  Thank you for a letter that could make a big difference in the lives of my readers.  Reprint with permission

We hope you’ll write your about  your own experiences and enter lifeinsurancenoexam.biz “Why Life Insurance” Writing Contest.

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Life Insurance Quotes


Life insurance has always evoked a lot of emotion.  Here are a few quotations from people born in the 1800’s.  Have any of your own you’d like to add?

“Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.”

Kin Hubbard quotes (American Humorist and Writer, 1868-1930)

“Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.”

Will Rogers quotes (American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun humour, 1879-1935)

“I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”

Stephen Leacock quotes (Canadian humorist, 1869-1944)

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Lifeinsurancenoexam.biz Sponsors $100 “Why Life Insurance” Writing Contest


Lifeinsurancenoexam.biz announces its  “Why Life Insurance” Writing Contest to run through September 30th, 2009.

Life insurance is considered a necessity in today’s world by most financial experts. After all, what would happen to your family if you pass away and they no longer had your income for support?  In most cases it would mean economic disaster.  But merely explaining the need is not nearly as compelling as a real life example. That’s why Lifeinsurancenoexam.biz is sponsoring the “Why Life Insurance” Writing Contest.

Just describe how life insurance has impacted the lives of family, friends, or clients.  It can be any length.  Short is fine; the entries will be judged on how compelling the story is.  The winner will receive $100 through PayPal and their winning entry published on lifeinsurancenoexam.biz/blog.

Rules:

1. Entry must be posted on another blog or website.

2. Entry must begin with the following and include the 2 anchor links.Lifeinsurancenoexam.biz has asked the following – How has life insurance impacted the lives of family, friends, or clients?  Here is my story:”

3.  Enter by emailing info@lifeinsurancenoexam.biz with notice of your entry posting and url.

4. You may enter as often as you like.

5. Deadline is midnight, September 30, 2009

6. Entrants give permission to http://lifeinsurancenoexam.biz to use and reprint entries on their website and any other promotional materials.

7.  Judges decision is final.

Please contact info@lifeinsurancenoexam.biz with any questions.  Lifeinsurancenoexam.biz gives free, online life insurance quotes.  Get instant term life insurance or whole life insurance without an exam.

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The Cold Hard Facts About Pre-Existing Conditions


Imagine yourself shopping for car insurance. Would you allow yourself to enter a risk pool where the other members could forgo premium until they had a severe accident and then secure covereage to retroactively cover the damage while you and others paid your premium continuously? Seems a bit unfair, eh? Not too mention that no one would bother paying premium regularly if that was not necessary to secure coverage. And just think what the premium increases would be like in such a risk pool. Brutal. Now imagine Life insurance which can be purchased for someone after they had died or fire insurance after the house was smoldering in ashes. Think those policies would be cheap? Would responsible individuals who wanted to insure against future loss sign on to be part of this risk pool? Insurance is designed to protect against an unforseen future loss. Forcing an insurer to cover a loss which has already taken place is welfare as John Stossell points out in this article. We have a very imperfect health insurance …

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Lengthy underwriting can cause premium rates to go up


When you read the June 9, 2009 Wall Street Journal article, Insurers Raise the Premiums on Term Life, there’s a perfect example of what can happen when medical exams delay the underwriting process.

Steve Johnson, a 51-year-old business consultant in Lilburn, Ga., was trying to beat an impending price increase when he rushed in his application to online insurance broker AccuQuote.com for a new $500,000, 10-year term life policy from ING Groep NV’s ReliaStar Life Insurance Co. in April.  But a series of canceled appointments delayed the necessary medical exam by several weeks, Mr. Johnson says. In the end, his application arrived a day late, and his annual premium rose to $864 from the $744 he had been quoted.

Don’t let this happen to you!  Expedite  your underwriting  by making sure you have all medical records sent promptly from your physicians and be sure to quickly schedule and NOT cancel the medical exam!

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