by Ed Hinerman | Oct 10, 2008 | AIG, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I was talking to a friend yesterday who, like many of us, is trying to compute how many additional years he will have to work to make up for the money he has lost from his assets over this past month. He calculated that he would have to work an additional 1.5 years to...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 7, 2008 | blood pressure, cancer, decline, diabetes, Fat March, heart disease, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, Juvenile life insurance, life insurance, obesity, stroke, term insurance, universal life
If you talk to most life insurance applicants who fall into the obese or morbidly obese categories according the their BMI, they have usually been told that they aren’t insurable or that the prices are so high as to render uninsurable because they can’t...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 6, 2008 | decline, diabetes, Independent agent, insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
Talk about a topic that has changed with the wind over the years, diabetes underwriting would be that animal. There was a time not all that long ago, at least if you’re my age, that diabetes was treated by most companies with a swift decline and by the few that...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 2, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
Where the heck did my net worth go? This has been one tough month on those of us who are actually middle class enough to care what happens to our retirement investments. For many it is a scramble to get your money to a safe place, with people scrambling to move money...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 1, 2008 | blood pressure, breast cancer, cancer, cigar smokers, insurance, life insurance
Preventive medicine has been around for a long time. In most cases that takes the shape of being on medication for borderline cholesterol or blood pressure issues. In some cases where women have a better than average chance of having breast cancer, radical mastectomy...
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