by Ed Hinerman | May 30, 2012 | approval, bipolar, bipolar disorder, decline, insurance, life insurance
I just want to go on record as saying I don’t write this kind of post to brag. I share these victories occasionally to help keep the hope alive for so many with bipolar disorder or other mood disorders who have been declined or abused with a high rating for no...
by Ed Hinerman | May 30, 2012 | cancer, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
Either life insurance underwriters aren’t buying into what researchers and doctors are saying about the PSA, prostate specific antigen test, or in the case of one underwriter she’s just believing what he wants to believe to get through this case and not...
by Ed Hinerman | May 24, 2012 | coronary artery disease (CAD), ejection fraction, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, LVEF
I just wrote yesterday about the difference between life insurance underwriters and doctors when it comes to how they view information and another on popped on the scene today that could be an interesting bit of sparring. The question at the center of this is whether...
by Ed Hinerman | May 23, 2012 | abnormal ekg, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
This is one of those days that makes me think about the “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus” line of thinking. Little did they know when that was written that they would give the planet with water to men!! It could easily be changed to...
by Ed Hinerman | May 21, 2012 | blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I know there’s a point where a lot of people won’t even bother looking into life insurance anymore. They figure they’ve messed the picture up bad enough that there really isn’t any need to waste time donating blood and waiting 3 or 4 weeks to...
by Ed Hinerman | May 17, 2012 | heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
When a life insurance agent presents something to a life insurance customer as a fact, customers generally believe it to be a fact and make their future plans accordingly. The believe life insurance agents are honest and knowledgeable and depend on their advice and...
by Ed Hinerman | May 16, 2012 | Dave Ramsey, Depression, insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
I am about to go off on Selectquote again but let me show you the new kinder, gentler side of my opinionated self. Selectquote handles, from what I’ve heard, about 100,000 applications a year. They’ve been the king of the hill for quite a while so that...
by Ed Hinerman | May 15, 2012 | children's life insurance, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, senior life insurance
I’ve talked about life insurance from one end of life to another, from insurance for children to senior life insurance. The one common denominator is that if someone doesn’t take any action to put life insurance in force there is absolutely no way their...
by Ed Hinerman | May 14, 2012 | contestability, death benefit, insurance, life insurance
There is probably no more misunderstood part of a life insurance policy than the contestability or incontestability period. This is the two year period beginning with the date the policy goes in force during which a company can review the underwriting and pull...
by Ed Hinerman | May 10, 2012 | Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
Some years ago, like 7 or 8 years, I tried doing some on line trading of stocks. After a couple of months it was obvious I was horrible at it so I hung up my trading software and haven’t been back. To this day I still get calls from stock brokers who always...
by Ed Hinerman | May 8, 2012 | Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, liver functions
As much as I run across this, it’s sad to know that there are probably as many inaccurate life insurance quotes given each day as there are accurate life insurance quotes. The reason is that most life insurance agents don’t know how the underwriting works...
by Ed Hinerman | May 5, 2012 | AARP, final expense life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, senior life insurance
I just got my monthly reminder from AARP that I have not yet purchased that life insurance through the AARP Life insurance program that I inquired about 5 years ago, and I haven’t talked about senior life insurance or final expense life insurance for a while so...
by Ed Hinerman | May 5, 2012 | conversion, customer service, insurance, life insurance, Protective Life, West Coast Life
Heck no! That would lower them to the level of, well, most of corporate America. Before I throw too big a noose here let me say that there are some life insurance companies that are absolutely oozing integrity. If they ever do something wrong they do whatever it takes...
by Ed Hinerman | May 2, 2012 | accidental death, Active Duty Military Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance claim, Lincoln National, Met Life
A colleague and I were bemoaning some of stranger than fiction nonsense that life insurance companies come up with. They always tout these things as the newest innovation to speed up underwriting, the best product idea since sliced bread, or they just leave it out...
by Ed Hinerman | May 1, 2012 | business life insurance, court ordered life insurance, DUI, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance
If life and life insurance was all simple there wouldn’t be any bumps in the road. We would all have the coverage we need when we need it and Dorothy would be singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow in the background. Truth is that most of the time with life...
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