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Tidbits #112: Math Equation

The following “math” equations will determine if your clients’ life insurance policies will end up in a death benefit, in a lapse, and/or in a court of law.

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Tidbits #110: As The World Turns

Who would have thought that this once popular soap opera title, would actually become our lives? Well, it has, and the life insurance industry has been "turning" as well. To wit...

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Tidbits #109: Wall Street Journal

In my 26 years in the life insurance business, I have not participated in “tactics” designed to accelerate the policy acquisition (a nice way of saying “sales”) process. I would be surprised to learn that anyone asked to speak with me about insurance planning, has felt even a little pressure to acquire (buy) a life, long term care, disability or annuity policy. The streak ends...

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Tidbits #104: Digital Underwriting

I apologize for the unusual length of today’s Tidbits. The life, disability and long term care insurance industry is changing too quickly and too dramatically, to limit this a sound bite. In fact, by the time you read this, it will have changed again. Through these unimaginable circumstances and in the most unpredictable way possible, this period may...

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Tidbits #102: Policy Alert

Coronavirus has turned our lives upside down and now another concern on top of everything else, life insurance. The stock market's reaction to the Coronavirus, will pummel and in some cases, destroy certain non-guaranteed policies, leaving them worth less or worthless. Millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of your client's...

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