tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071392929803511449.post-33232719461808718462008-04-15T10:39:00.003-05:002008-04-15T11:14:09.481-05:00Just buy your life insurance from <a href="http://www.gardenstatelife.com/">Garden State Life Insurance</a> of course. End of article.<br /><br />Just kidding.<br /><br />I realize this is a weird article coming from a blog sponsored by a life insurance company, but try and hear me out. This is part three in a series of articles that has a few points to consider when reviewing your options whether you are interested in buying insurance from <a href="http://www.gardenstatelife.com/">Garden State Life</a> or not.<br /><br />I have bad news and good news on the topic of finding a company with good customer service and one that will treat you fairly. The bad news is that unlike consumer products it is really difficult to find reliable third party reviews of customer service experiences with life insurance. I love it that when I'm shopping for a new electronic gadget, I can easily go to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/">Amazon.com</a> or <a href="http://www.cnet.com/">Cnet.com</a> and get an indepth product description, pictures and reviews of the products and companies that make the products. Unfortunately, I have not come across a life insurance company equivalent. Let me know if you have a good source and I'll link to it or write about it. <br /><br />Since there is not really an unbiased location that I'm aware of for life insurance company reviews, I would recommend running a query on the company name in one of the major search engines (e.g. Google or Yahoo). If you run just a regular web query, you can see not only the company's website, but you may also run across articles that may have been written about the company or other information that you might find useful. I would also recommend running a query in the "News" search section of either Google or Yahoo to see if you can find any recent news involving the company.<br /><br />The good news is that life insurance companies and agents are highly regulated by state governments so they are all forced to deal fairly with both prospective and current policyholders. This does not mean that all insurance companies are equal in how they treat their customers, but you can be assured that if you choose a <a href="http://www.gardenstatelife.com/">life insurance company</a> that has good financial ratings and has been in business for a while, then you will be treated fairly.<br /><br /><a href="http://gardenstatelifeinsurance.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-do-i-decide-what-life-insurance.html">How do I Decide What Life Insurance Company to Buy From? (Part 1 - Ratings)</a><br /><a href="http://gardenstatelifeinsurance.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-do-i-decide-what-life-insurance_27.html">How do I Decide What Life Insurance Company to Buy From? (Part 2 - Price)</a>Michael Musselmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02819745657893406414noreply@blogger.com