by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2012 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
The dreaded elevated PSA! Life insurance underwriters treat a PSA out of the normal 0-4.0 range or a PSA that is higher than your last PSA with the life insurance equivalent of shutting all the hatches on a sinking ship. Even though there are no less than half a dozen...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 22, 2010 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
I was recently asked to work on a case where the client was feeling like the kiss of decline was the best she would ever hear! Her only problem was that she had been a type 1 diabetic since age 9. I shared with you not too long ago how we had found that spot where...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 22, 2010 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance
Just when you think you can count on the life insurance underwriting guidelines, Glaxo SmithKline’s Avandia, becomes a curve ball that no one is sure how to handle. Two US Senators released a confidential study that insinuates a strong link between Avandia 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 | Jan 22, 2010 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 2 diabetes
I was considering just re-posting some old information about life insurance underwriting of diabetes, but let’s just hash our way through it. There is new information and new opportunities that wouldn’t have been there even a year ago. Let’s save...
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 22, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, obesity
I had a client just recently who works for State Farm as a claims adjuster and was declined for life insurance by to them due to his obesity. He’s 6’1, 415 pounds. I shouldn’t get down on State Farm over this since by most life insurance company...
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