by Ed Hinerman | Jan 7, 2012 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, ING Reliastar, insurance, life insurance
I’ve talked in the past about how some companies will come on like they want to be the industry leader in a niche, only to fall of the radar completely a year or two later. The supposition on my part is that they either hired a new chief underwriter who put a...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 16, 2011 | A1c, cholesterol, Depression, diabetes, insurance, life insurance
On the subject of fair life insurance underwriting I can certainly be found on both sides of he fence. Sometimes I think the underwriting consideration is completely fair, something that based on the information is something the client is just going to have to accept....
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 1, 2011 | Biggest Loser, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
There is probably no one more prevalent issue that affects life insurance underwriting more than weight. With 30+% of our country meeting the criteria for being obese, face it, every application we get has a 1 in 3 chance of build and BMI being an underwriting issue....
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 1, 2011 | Banner Life, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, West Coast Life
In what appears to be a screeching halt to the bottoming out of term insurance prices, several companies moved within the past month to unseat perennial term insurance giant Banner Life, a subsidiary of Legal and General America. Banner responded today by lowering...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 28, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
That used to be a quick and easy answer. The best life insurance rates were available only to the most experienced and trained pilots. For an airline pilot life insurance was no trick at all. For them they might as well have been a perfectly healthy car salesperson....
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 17, 2011 | Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance
Although I would never say never, in general the major mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and chronic depression are hard to get approved at preferred best rates. We’ve successfully shot that shot in the past and hope to again, but it takes a truly...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 31, 2010 | Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance
I won’t go so far as to say that you have to have a life insurance agent with a mood disorder, but when it comes to successful underwriting of anxiety or depression life insurance applications need to be handled correctly. An agent’s understanding of the...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 5, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk
If there is a common thread through the whole life insurance application/underwriting experience, it’s that those applying tend to underplay their mortality while feeling like underwriters really overplay the whole mortality thing. Life insurance pricing and...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 14, 2009 | gastric bypass, insurance, life insurance
The standard guideline for life insurance underwriting of gastric bypass surgery has generally been two years out from surgery and one year of weight stability. In other words most companies don’t really want to participate in your mortality post surgery,...
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