by Ed Hinerman | Oct 29, 2013 | HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer, PSA
Prostate cancer has been one of the easier cancers for life insurance underwriting for a long time, but the criteria for those low stage and grade cases has been expanded to areas not seen before. In recent weeks I’ve been all over this forum about breakthroughs...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 28, 2013 | guaranteed issue life insurance, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance for gay couples, term insurance, universal life
Just a month ago there was only one step to getting life insurance if you were HIV positive. You filled out an application for guaranteed issue life insurance and sent in money, lots of money. Guaranteed issue whole life insurance was your only choice and even though...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 17, 2013 | Active Duty Military Life Insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance claim, Met Life
As much as I’m not a huge fan of the Met Life active duty life insurance stance, after these past few weeks, for those who qualify, it might be worth considering. My gripe with the way they offer their life insurance program for active duty military is that they...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 15, 2013 | approval, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, guaranteed issue life insurance, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Some nut case has been all over the internet search engines claiming a phenomenal life insurance underwriting breakthrough that will allow a large number of HIV positive people to get traditional life insurance up to $1 million. Since HIV became an issue in the...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 11, 2013 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had forwarded a post to three life insurance companies, Prudential, Banner Life and American General Life. The gist of the post was that it seemed to me and several of my colleagues that there had been a serious shift in mood...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 9, 2013 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, compliance, decline, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Life insurance underwriters have a one word answer to applicants who have been prescribed medicine, or recommended to take a test and not taken it. That word is decline. In a nutshell it comes under the heading of non compliant with treatment. I’m guilty of it...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 8, 2013 | approval, HIV Positive, insurance, lab results, life insurance, life insurance approval
So we’ve rounded the corner where we know we have life insurance carriers that will approve up to $1mm of life insurance, both term and permanent with life insurance underwriting guidelines that are custom made for just applicants who are HIV Positive. So you...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 7, 2013 | approval, HIV Positive, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
Over all the years I’ve been in life insurance I’ve talked with dozens of people who were HIV+ and needed life insurance and the only thing I could offer them was guaranteed issue life insurance. Guaranteed issue is exactly what it says. If you’re...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 4, 2013 | approval, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I would like to claim that I’ve been waiting on the edge of my seat, holding my breath, watching the horizon and all of those other things that would indicate that I believed we were on the verge of a traditional life insurance breakthrough for HIV positive, but...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 3, 2013 | HIV Positive, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
Until today I have had to point anyone HIV positive to the guaranteed issue life insurance market. Over the past 15 years we have seen huge strides in the treatment of HIV and with medical advances the ability to fully control it. For those of us who have been around...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 2, 2013 | insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting, mortality, mortality risk
It wasn’t that long ago that underwriting life insurance consisted of setting the application, exam and medical records next to a big underwriting guide (just my picture), matching up all of the maladies with a long ago predetermined mortality assumption and...
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