Category: Investment Fraud

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Are there annual fees insurers charge in universal life insurance policies? Yes.  Most insurance carriers charge certain fees and expenses in each policy year of a universal life insurance policy.  Sometimes these fees are referred to as cost of insurance (“COI”) or mortality rates or similar names.  COI […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What’s the problem with a free steak dinner or lunch? Insurance carriers, marketing groups and agents are creative in the ways they sell life insurance and annuity products to senior citizens.  One recurring example is the free lunch or free steak dinner invite.  A free meal is always […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What is a deferred annuity? Deferred annuities are life insurance contracts where the policy holder makes an upfront premium payment in exchange for an income stream in years to come.  The concept sounds simple enough but in fact deferred annuities, like fixed indexed annuities, are extremely complicated life […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What is a deferred annuity? Deferred annuities are contracts where the policy holder makes an upfront premium payment in exchange for an income stream in years to come.  Are deferred annuity policies complicated? Yes.  While the concept of deferred annuities sounds simple enough, deferred annuity policies, like fixed […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Are there annual fees insurers charge in life insurance policies? Yes.  Most insurance carriers charge certain fees and expenses in each year of an indexed universal life insurance policy.  Sometimes these fees are referred to as cost of insurance (“COI”) or mortality rates or similar names.  COI rates […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What are Riders To Annuity Contracts? Riders are attachments to deferred annuities sold by life insurance agents or retirement planners or other advisors as enhanced benefits to any proposed annuity policy. Riders come with an additional fee added to your base premium.  Available riders include income riders, long-term […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What is a deferred annuity? Deferred annuities are life insurance contracts where the policy holder makes an upfront premium payment in exchange for an income stream in years to come.  The concept sounds simple enough but in fact deferred annuities, like fixed indexed annuities, are extremely complicated life […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What are Riders To Annuity Contracts? Riders are attachments to deferred annuities sold by life insurance agents or retirement planners or other advisors as enhanced benefits to any proposed annuity policy. Riders come with an additional fee added to your base premium.  Available riders include income riders, long-term […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What’s the problem with a free steak dinner or lunch? Insurance carriers, marketing groups and agents are creative in the ways they sell life insurance and annuity products to senior citizens.  One recurring example is the free lunch or free staeak dinner invite.  A free meal is always […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What are deferred annuities? Deferred annuities are contracts where the policy holder makes an upfront premium payment in exchange for an income stream in years to come. The concept sounds simple enough but in fact deferred annuities, like fixed indexed annuities, are extremely complicated insurance contracts sometimes running […]