by Ed Hinerman | Mar 17, 2009 | insurance, John Hancock, life insurance, Protective Life, Prudential, term insurance, universal life
Since the end of 2008 I have been following with detail as rapidly as possible about the changes in the life insurance business. The downward trend in term insurance rates and the higher reserve requirements for universal life NLG policies are changing the landscape...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 14, 2009 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, disability, insurance, life insurance
I have come to the conclusion that I must not have adequately explained why life insurance underwriters can’t overcome the issue of being disabled due to bipolar disorder. It is simply a show stopper. Being on disability is to some degree a stumbling block no...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 13, 2009 | accelerated death benefit, conversion, insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
I’ve made no secret of my disdain for whole life insurance and the whole cash value is more important than adequate insurance mentality. I was cruising financial news today and saw an article on life insurance and decided to check it out. The article did provide...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 13, 2009 | blood pressure, cholesterol, COPD, decline, diabetes, gastric bypass, heart attack, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity, smoking, stroke
One of the key life insurance underwriting factors for just about any health or mental health issue is compliance with treatment and avoidance of other risk factors and collateral health issues. Compliance is taking medication prescribed exactly as it’s...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 12, 2009 | beneficiary, death benefit, insurance, life insurance
There’s a lot of assumptions about life insurance and probably the biggest and most important is that if you name someone as beneficiary, and you die, they will get your life insurance proceeds without any hassle. After all. You put there name there and paid the...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 12, 2009 | hazardous activities, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, scuba diving
Part of every life insurance interview has to do with extreme or dangerous activities. Often when I ask clients about whether they participate in anything like that, they will answer something like, “Well, I golf or fish. Does that count?” It seems after...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 11, 2009 | blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity
We’ve talked a lot about obesity and overweight issues and how build affects life insurance rates. A person’s build, their height and weight and how that is distributed, is probably one of the biggest sore spots in life insurance underwriting, at least to...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 11, 2009 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, Prudential
The truth is that I doubt if anyone makes it through life without situational anxiety or depression and there are days when I would swear the whole world is ADD, so what’s the big deal? For years a lot of the more conservative life insurance companies have with...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 10, 2009 | A1c, blood pressure, coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
There are probably more than five tips for type 1 and type 2 diabetics who are looking for life insurance and don’t want to pay through the nose for it, but let’s take a quick look at the most important. 1. Educate yourself about your diabetes. Understand...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 10, 2009 | Dave Ramsey, insurance, life insurance, suze orman, term insurance
When Dave Ramsey talks about taking care of the basics, housing, food, utilities and such, he hits right at the core of what life insurance is all about. Life insurance isn’t about enriching those left behind. It’s about making sure they can live on...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 9, 2009 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
Having group life insurance through your job or organization is certainly one of the top excuses for not buying a personal life insurance policy. After all, if you already have it, why buy more. No physical. No muss or fuss, and group insurance is generally sooo...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 6, 2009 | business life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance, return of premium term insurance, term insurance
In our current economic meltdown there are a lot of people out there trying to say that the government or big business are trying to run our country. What this country really runs on is small businesses and what really makes those businesses work is the owners or the...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 5, 2009 | insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, term insurance
YRT, yearly renewable term life insurance, has been around for a long time. Really the original term insurance, it has a rate that is guaranteed. Unfortunately it is guaranteed to go up substantially every year. YRT starts out with a very low first year price. For...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 4, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, suicide clause
I’ve often been told that life insurance has an out with people with severe depression or severe bipolar disorder because they’ve got that suicide clause thing. I’ve written about this before and I think life insurance companies would probably prefer...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 3, 2009 | blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
This all went a little quicker than even I had anticipated. I shared a few weeks ago that I was applying for term life insurance on myself, a replacement of some terms that seemed prudent to extend. Because of some past health history impacting a previous application...
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