by Ed Hinerman | Jun 17, 2016 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, Depression, HIV life insurance, insurance, life insurance
I thought I was going to be famous when I figured out how to play a game of Monopoly, not even life insurance Monopoly, with four people in under a half hour, beginning to end. I think we could add Life insurance and make the game shorter. Just put one square out...
by Ed Hinerman | May 28, 2016 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, mood disorder life insurance
I guess I certainly never claimed I was mood disorder free and in fact sometime during the life of this blog I likely owned up to long term mild depression and maybe a bit of anxiety. And until this last November I would have stuck to that story and made that my final...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 26, 2016 | ADHD, Anxiety, approval, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, compliance, decline, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, physicians life insurance
Now there’s a calming thought. You’re still alive, traumatized from head to toe from a car to moose gathering on the highways of Maine and you’ve made it to the hospital. The doctor and nurse start working and you relax as you know that you are with...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 5, 2013 | application process, compliance, decline, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
There is a tendency with a lot of people to get a little road weary with a long term treatment plan and take off in our own direction. I am guilty as charged of that and just like I advise my clients, I have a little homework to do before I apply for a life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2011 | Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance, physicians life insurance
What are there, 300 million plus a few people in the United States now? And the best guess I found is that 10’s of millions have mood disorders to one degree or another. Personally I think that may be an understatement. Tens of millions treated and untreated? 1...
by Ed Hinerman | May 11, 2011 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
When you consider the opposite of stable is unstable it makes it easier to understand why life insurance underwriting uses stability as a benchmark for approval and rates for all mood disorder underwriting. Whether it is depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 16, 2011 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I recently came across a new underwriting twist that would apply primarily to mood disorders such as chronic depression and bipolar disorder, viewing a medication change as a negative event. Would it be better to not try for more stability, not try to improve by...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 30, 2010 | insurance, life insurance
You have to understand that life insurance agents don’t get paid unless they deliver an approved policy and the policy is paid and put into force. So the lies (incorrect answers) that clients in answer to life insurance application questions generally impact us...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 19, 2010 | Attention Deficit Disorder, insurance, life insurance
Every time I hear of someone being rated anything more than preferred on a life insurance application for ADHD or ADD, it just leaves me shaking my head and wondering if the underwriter has any clue what attention deficit disorder is. I got an email this morning,...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 13, 2010 | Anxiety, insurance, life insurance
In a post some years ago I was talking about underwriting of mild mood disorders and made a flip comment that it seemed about time that underwriters take another look since most of America and likely most of them were on Prozac or Zoloft or Wellbutrin. Well, I’m...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 29, 2010 | Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance
I don’t know what some life insurance companies are thinking when they rate a policy because someone was on or is on an anti depressant or anti anxiety medication due to something completely situational like a divorce, the loss of a job or a death in the family....
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 29, 2010 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I’ve gone over and over the criteria for successfully acquiring life insurance if you have bipolar disorder, really any mood disorder, the same criteria posted our bipolar life insurance site. 1. Someone who has not been hospitalized for bipolar disorder other...
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...
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