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Big News From John Hancock LTCi

your client/prospect will never see better premiums then NOW on 5% compound inflation protection. How do you say going, going, gone!

L.A. Times Gets It Wrong Again — So What Else Is New?

Calling CalPers long-term care coverage, “insurance”, is like calling me a tri-athelete! Trying to paint real insurance companies with the grease brush of CalPers long-term care insurance is the height of hypocrisy …….

Opportunity Amidst the Rubble

If an insurance company designed and marketed a product like this to consumers its executives, including the actuaries, would be “perp-walked” out on the nightly news.

Does Long-Term Care Planning Fit Into Your Insurance Practice?

The full implementation of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 means that financial and insurance professionals of all stripes are now playing in each other’s sandbox. Either they will become fluent in how all of the various planning tools fit consumer’s needs or they will begin to lose sales, get sued by disgruntled clients and heirs or both. Which category do you want to find yourself in?

2009 In The Rear View Mirror

WOW! 2009 is just about over.  We’ve survived a year that started and now ends with great uncertainty.  However, as we look [...]

Not Such A CLASS ACT!

Long-term care provisions of pending health care reform.

The Dog Days of Summer Report

Regardless of the fact that many of you are vacationing and taking family time this summer (Susan and I included) [...]

Prudential LTCi Provides Help for Your Holiday Shopping

How would you like to earn more than $1,000 in gift cards?  That’s exactly what one of our agents did last [...]

Orman Gets Her Scarf Caught In the Ringer

Financial planning televangelist Suze Orman is making headlines but not the kind she’d like. She and CNA are being sued by [...]

The Beat Goes On

Several weeks ago I attended the Ninth Intercompany LTCi Conference in Reno, Nevada. For long-term care insurance junkies like me this is the [...]