How to Choose the Right Life Insurance Company

When you get quotes for life insurance from your local agent or from a life insurance quote website, how do you know which life insurance company to choose?  On the LifeInsure.com website, for instance, you might see quotes from 6-10 … Continue reading

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Life Insurance Quotes – Buyer Beware

Life Insurance Quotes on the Internet If you want to know how competitive life insurance websites have become, all you have to do is search the term life insurance quotes.  You won’t have any shortage of websites trying to attract … Continue reading

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Life Insurance – What does it Have to do with Steve Jobs?

Okay, I would understand how a reader might cynically look at the title of this post and think that I’m exploiting the death of Steve Jobs.  I imagine others are guilty of doing this to boost circulation and search engine … Continue reading

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Is Return of Premium Term Life Insurance a Good Value?

When looking at purchasing return of premium term life insurance, you should compare the difference in cost between return of premium and regular term life insurance.  You will find that there is a much greater difference in the cost between … Continue reading

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LIFE presents The Seven Wonders of Life Insurance

As part of this years Life Insurance Awareness Month, LIFE (The Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about life, health, disability and long term care insurance) has produced a great piece … Continue reading

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Life Insurance Trends – What the Statistics Say

Life Insurance Awareness Month, the time of year that the insurance industry reaches out to educate the American public about life insurance.  LIMRA, an association that provides consulting, research and other services to insurance and financial services companies worldwide, publishes … Continue reading

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Life Insurance Awareness Month – with an Assist from Lamar Odom

As a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers (sorry Celtics fans), I have seen some great players over the years – Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, Magic and Kareem, Shaq and Kobe, to name-drop a few.  When he plays his heart … Continue reading

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Life Insurance for Stay at Home Moms

“Are you working?” I asked the young mother of two whose husband was purchasing a life insurance policy for himself.  She answered, “no, I’m a stay at home Mom.”  The husband told me they had thought of purchasing a policy … Continue reading

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Applying for Life Insurance – Do Medical Exams Scare You?

I wish I had a dollar for every prospective life insurance client I spoke with who was nervous about getting their blood drawn.  I have even had a few people decide against purchasing life insurance because they couldn’t confront “the … Continue reading

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Term Life Insurance Laddering Approach

In a blog post in April 2009, I wrote about Layering Term Life Insurance to provide different levels of coverage over a period of time.  Layering or laddering several different term lengths can help address different time horizons associated with different … Continue reading

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