by Ed Hinerman | Nov 5, 2018 | insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, medical records life insurance, Sleep apnea
If the Wall St Journal was doing an article on life insurance applications and how underwriters interpret your medical records they would have their hands full. Without exaggerating most medical records contain errors and ambiguous notes. To be fair to the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 21, 2016 | compliance, cpap, life insurance, Sleep apnea
What happened to me? It used to be that if I went for a half a dozen blog posts without railing on the underwriting and personal health importance of control of your impairment through compliance with your treatment and commitment to change of habits if needed, I was...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 26, 2015 | application process, blood pressure, compliance, cpap, decline, high blood pressure, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting, Sleep apnea
If 60 Minutes was doing a segment on life insurance applications and how underwriters interpret your medical records they would have to focus on one of the biggest stumbling blocks, doctor’s recommendations for testing. To be fair, there wasn’t any life...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 12, 2014 | Anxiety, CEO life insurance, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Sleep apnea
People living with sleep apnea are at risk of dying and that seems to be what troubles the majority of life insurance companies and life insurance underwriters. The same could be said for people living with anxiety or mild depression. In this time we’re living...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 10, 2013 | application process, bait and switch, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, Sleep apnea
I had a potential customer call a few weeks ago and after having gone through all the health questions with him, I let him know that I just needed a little more detail on his sleep apnea in order to shop it for life insurance appropriately. After he told me that he...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 1, 2013 | application process, approval, diabetes, ING Reliastar, insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
$12 a month! 70% lower life insurance rates! Just pennies a day! Between the internet and tv there can’t possibly be a person left that doesn’t know that somehow, somewhere people might qualify for really cheap insurance. But how do you know when...
by Ed Hinerman | May 16, 2012 | Dave Ramsey, Depression, insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
I am about to go off on Selectquote again but let me show you the new kinder, gentler side of my opinionated self. Selectquote handles, from what I’ve heard, about 100,000 applications a year. They’ve been the king of the hill for quite a while so that...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 9, 2011 | A1c, diabetes, foreign nationals, Infinite banking, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, Sleep apnea
I’ve been writing long enough that I am bound to be a little redundiferous at times, but I don’t think it can be said too many times. If you use the wrong agent to buy life insurance, who picks the wrong company for your situation, you will not enjoy a...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 21, 2010 | cpap, insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
Plenty of people have experienced the nightmare of applying for life insurance after having been diagnosed with sleep apnea. Many companies treat you as if you really are going to quit breathing and not start again. I can argue both sides of this issue, but suffice it...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 23, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
It wasn’t all that long ago that life insurance underwriters would automatically table rate any sleep apnea, obviously having a problem wrapping their minds around the fact that the client would quit breathing several, if not a lot of times every night. The real...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 5, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots, Sleep apnea
There is a tendency for people to just hold on to life insurance once it is in force, even when opportunities to improve on the rate or the term length come up. Most often this happens when their isn’t a servicing agent around to find the better deals and...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 4, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
We’ve leaned on Prudential for quite some time for the best underwriting on sleep apnea. Now ING Reliastar has decided they want a piece of that risk pool also. Generally most companies will underwrite mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea in the standard to...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 30, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, obesity, Sleep apnea
I was working with a client on quotes the other day and he was telling me about a friend who had decided not to even pursue life insurance because he was convinced that he was probably not insurable. You know it’s kind of like that old saying, “The only...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 13, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
So, you applied for life insurance and have been postponed or declined because you didn’t complete some, for instance a sleep study test your doctor recommended! Want a second opinion? Don’t waste your time. You’ll get the same answer at the next...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 10, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
Of course the reason snoring is a life insurance underwriting issue is because someone may put a pillow over your head and hold it there until the noise stops. Seriously though, if that snoring is driven by sleep apnea, depending on the company you may get a brief...
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