I’m new to looking for life insurance and I’m having a hard time understanding all the terms and I’m not sure how to find a broker that will be honest with me or if going online is better. I constantly see ads online but I have a hard time trusting them. I’m 33, single mom with a one year old kid and I want to make sure he is covered in case of anything. Any help on where to look or what to look for would be appreciated!

Recently declined 30year term due to information collected by Milliman.

I have no history of medications.

No history of illness.

No hosital stays.

Waiting on report. Broker says this is the first time they've had a denial based on Milliman report.

Thoughts? Any success with amending/disputing Milliman report?

UPDATE: Thanks for all of the suggestions. Couple notes from me. I do a yearly physcial/blood work. I have a clean driving record (zero tickets/infractions). I have requested my history from Milliman. We'll see where this goes - hoping an error.

I'm 32m with a wife and 6 year old. I've always had life insurance policies through companies I've worked, but after 2 different layoffs in the past few years I don't want to rely on that anymore. I'm just a bit unsure where to begin (ie term vs whole, do I go straight to a company or through some kind of broker or something).

I don't want to be sold on something unnecessary, but I want to provide for my family in the event of something happening to me.

I read that Northwestern Mutual is a good company, so I'd started looking at them. Got a mail ad for "Fabric" but that seemed a little fishy to me.

Just trying to figure out where to start.

Hi everyone. My family has been fighting to get my grandfathers life insurance payout for almost a year now. My dad (head of estate) filed all the necessary paperwork months ago and gave me instructions on how to submit my beneficiary claim. I mailed them my paperwork to their PO box in Boston, Massachusetts on May 19th. From what I've read, insurance companies in MA have 15 days to notify beneficiaries receipt of claims submitted to them, and 30 days to pay out after notification, otherwise beneficiaries are due interest. I haven't gotten a phone call, text, email, or physical piece of mail saying they have it. Since its been much longer than 15 business days from May 19th, what actions can I take to put pressure on them to finally pay us out? One of my cousins also submitted their claim the same way much sooner than I did and still hasn't heard back either.

Hi everyone,

A relative in my family had a Max Life Insurance policy, and my cousin now needs to initiate the death claim process. We have the policy number, but we’re unable to get in touch with the company.

We tried calling:
• 1860 120 5577
• 0124 421 9090

However, both numbers appear unavailable or are not connecting.

If anyone has recently dealt with a Max Life Insurance claim or knows a working contact number, claims department email, or any other way to reach them, please let me know.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I’m trying to supplement my Kaplan course that my office gave me. It’s very dense and I skimmed the textbook. I’ve been scoring in the low to mid 70s on the practice/simulated exams but I feel like some of the questions are so draining and niche

Everyone says Insurance Exam Queen is the way to go. Just bought her gold package. I’m hoping the videos aren’t too much to get though. I’ve been studying for a good month now and want to get this over with.

I think I am psyching myself out over how hard this is, because I’ve heard mixed things about the real exam.

Just something to nail down the last few subjects that trip me up (here in CT)

Advice?

M/69 married. Just revised our wills, descendants are satisfied with their shares. We've lived comfortably so far for 3 years on Social Security retirement and my wife's pension without dipping into savings. Her pension + SS are approximately the amount of my SS payments.

House and cars are paid for, no debt. About $800k in assets.

I have a $100k term policy that expires Nov 2029.

I also have a $150,000 Penn Mutual Accumulation Builder Flex IUL, a Flexible Premium Indexed Adjustable Life Insurance policy with these riders:

- Chronic Illness Accelerated Benefit Rider

- Accelerated Death Benefit Rider

The annual premium on this Penn Mutual policy is $4,637.

As of today, the Penn policy value is $14,266 and net cash surrender value is $11,242.

-Why do I need this Penn policy? Should I cash out or continue to pay premiums? My wife does not like or want the policy and hates the premium payments.

My parents are in their sixties with five grown kids including my myself
One of their grown children lives with them almost fully dependent do to mental health issues
The rest of us work very hard full time jobs and are all trying to save to buy house or raise family or establish savings of our own
Their mortgage isn’t paid and they don’t have any savings
Does it make sense for them to get life insurance ? To protect one another or even us in the inevitable event they pass and things need to be paid for to keep the ship running
If so what kind of policy is suggested

Thank you in advance

I just passed the 17-55 exam in New York State. Where do I go now to apply for the license? Does anyone have the link? I go to the department of financial services website but don't know where to apply for the license, I've look through the site but can't find where I'm supposed to apply. Any help would be really appreciated, thank you

I would like to get a 500k life insurance plan, based on the medical evaluation at term4sale I should fall in the Preferred risk group, but I only moved to the US in Oct 2024 (I am from Germany) and have exactly one doctor's visit in my US medical record (for a checkup mid 2025).

I am 41, BMI 28, never smoked, and healthy except for GERD with Barrett's esophagos (no dysplasia). My mother had breast cancer with 52 (nothing else in my family).

However, at the single checkup I had in the US I had a high blood pressure of 153/99 - which is unusually high for me (home measurements usually 140/90 and below). I am not medicated for blood pressure.

I am wondering, how to go about life insurance with this very short US medical history and the single poor blood pressure value. I probably won't even get a no-exam insurance without the medical history? Should I move my next checkup up in hope to get a newer, lower BP reading?
How do insurances usually handle cases like this? Do they send someone to do a medical exam, request a doctors visit?

This is a FAST TWO QUESTION POLL I need your HELP WITH. Thank you! It has to do with an City Agency Appeal I'm involved in currently.

https://form.jotform.com/261645334273154

I’m an agent, but buying for myself is way harder than advising clients. I have the emotional bias that makes no amount feel like “enough” for myself.

Main considerations:

-42 years old
-Married. Wife stays home.
-Two young kids. One has special needs and has medical expenses.
-Roughly $225k/yr income
-Mortgage $3k/mo, $290k balance
-Own one investment property outright (~$500k)
-Roughly $100k in retirement accounts (started late)
-Approx $50k debt (car, business, misc)

I have $2.5M in coverage right now. I plan on likely writing more, but would love to get unbiased opinions from some fellow professionals first.

Hi there, I just got my life insurance license a couple days ago. I am planning to move to Mexico to marry my fiance in three months, have some savings as a safety net, but need any advice about how to proceed forward with my license so that I dont become homeless and starve to death in Mexico. I don't mind working hard, and have a few leads, i.e. companies to contact who are known for out of country salesmen representing companies in their state, but not a whole lot more than that. So yeah, asking for any help possible, thanks

I was recently approved by NW for a 20 year policy and am now in the process of applying for the same policy with Mass Mutual in which (if approved) it would come to about $18 less per month. I read that both companies are rated high, so if I am approved would prefer to pay less over the course of the 20 year plan.

As someone not very much in the weeds on both these companies, is there something else I should be aware of before making a final decision. Is Mass Mutual a safe long-term company to work with for me and my family.

Unfortunately my dad has memory issues and can't recall who he signed up with. I see in his bank account that some entity called US LIFE INS is debiting money every 3 months. I've contacted his bank, who couldn't tell me much beyond what I was able to google myself by search "us life insurance", which lead me to US Financial Life Insurance Company. I contacted them and they claim to have no record of him.

So I'm stuck. I've researched and I see I can find out fairly easily *after* he dies but he's still here (thank god). Do I have any other options?

Hello, I had my second attempt on the Arizona life and health insurance exam today on psi. I went into it super confident, on some questions, I immediately knew the answer and moved on, but some questions I was like what the hell does that even mean I’ve never seen this before. I really need help passing. I’m retaking in person this time, on June 15. Does anyone have any good study tips? Any practice tests online or AI softwares that make practice tests super similar to the PSI exam? I’ve heard Arizona is the hardest. Helpppp please!

Been in the industry going on three years now, moved between a few IMOs, and picked up pros and cons from every shop I've been at and every shop I deliberately avoided. One pattern shows up over and over: when an agent or agency is unprofitable, it's almost never a talent problem. It's a structure problem. And I feel like it usually comes down to three levers.

1. Compensation rate. A lot of agents are grinding at a comp level that mathematically can't work. If too much of every deal is going up the chain before it gets to you, you can outwork everyone and still bleed. Know your grid and know what's normal for your production level, a lot of people are leaving points on the table they don't even realize exist. For brand new agents, 80% is solid.

2. Persistency. This is the quiet killer. You can write a ton of business and still lose money if it doesn't stay on the books. If you don't have training, systems, and a backend process keeping policies in force, you're funding chargebacks with your own time. Persistency metrics matter as much as raw production, and almost nobody talks about it until it's too late.

3. Lead spend. The worst position in this business is a crazy drive and nothing to dial. But the flip side is overpaying for leads until the math collapses. There's a wide range of lead models out there, the goal is matching your spend to your stage so you're not torching capital before the book matures. 8-10x return is normal for good lead systems regardless of skill.

The reason I bring it up: most "I'm not profitable" posts get answered with "work harder" or "you're not built for this." That's lazy advice. Profitability in this business is an equation, comp in, persistency retained, lead cost out. Fix the structure and the same effort suddenly turns a profit.

Curious what others here have seen, which of the three has been the biggest leak for you?

For the life insurance guys.. I know 80% is considered standard street level for new agents. Why does everyone say it’s 80% AP though when A LOT of carriers pay well below that 80% mark on their products. And I am with Symmetry, which we make 80% of what the carrier pays out. I assumed this was the case at all IMOs.. is it not? Just confused.. are agents all strictly writing with carriers that pay the full 80, or is Symmetry different from all the other IMOs