by Ed Hinerman | Oct 22, 2015 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, bipolar disorder, death benefit, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim, life insurance underwriting, physicians life insurance
Abuse of prescription drugs has been a growing problem for a few decades now and life insurance underwriters have tried to balance their reaction of this abuse with alcohol abuse and illegal drug abuse. For the most part the underwriting mirrors that of other...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 20, 2015 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, bipolar disorder, CDT alcohol marker, decline, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance
Fresh back from vacation I had to send a potential customer an email explaining that none of the life insurance companies I represent wanted to approve a policy for him. He called a short time later and thanked me for shopping it and then proceeded to eat my face off...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 27, 2015 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, decline, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, hazardous activities, insurance, kidnap, life insurance, marijuana use
I get it that this is a free country and the majority rules democratically and all that, but when a selfish, uninformed majority (barely) legalizes recreational use of pot, well, it’s like stupid on steroids. Someone very close to me is addicted to drugs so if I...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 1, 2014 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, DUI, high net worth, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, physicians life insurance
I can tell you without hesitating that I wouldn’t be in the life insurance business if I was just churning out easy business and that isn’t to say I couldn’t make good money doing it. It is the challenges of working with underwriters to find a way to...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 19, 2014 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, CDT alcohol marker, decline, doctor's recommendation, executives, honesty, insurance, life insurance, liver functions, mortality risk
I may have just uncovered some of the mystery surrounding the dreaded life insurance lab result call the CDT, an easy way to refer to Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin. It’s what is know in life insurance as an alcohol marker. This test, when abnormal, is...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 10, 2013 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, CEO life insurance, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting
One of those set in stone rules that we have lived with for years in life insurance underwriting just got a new look and possibly a question that may not make the answer as black and white as most underwriters would like it to be. I am currently shopping a case where...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 16, 2013 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, CEO life insurance, decline, executives, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
The mega agencies online are really starting to make us life insurance agents who take our time and try to do a good job look like we’re part of a clueless industry. I had an Intelliquote former client (declined last week) call today and tell me that he just...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 5, 2013 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, application process, approval, budget, compliance, decline, impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
Because of the nature of impaired risk life insurance, many of my clients start out just hoping for an approval (usually after several declines), but they soon find out that approval isn’t my end game. I don’t just want declines turned into approvals. I...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 16, 2012 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, business life insurance, court ordered life insurance, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, executives, insurable interest, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance, Lloyds of London
The life insurance process is by law and by practice a confidential transaction. Life insurance agents shouldn’t be telling anyone about who they are working for and life insurance examiners shouldn’t be telling anyone about who they have examined and home...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 29, 2012 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, Anxiety, application process, approval, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Drop the word insurance out of there and reality is that with success in life comes challenges that even the most on the ball folks aren’t ready for. How a person deals with those challenges can affect how they are perceived when they apply for life insurance....
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 12, 2012 | accidental death, Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, decline, DUI, insurance, life insurance
There is this perverse notion, an urban legend if you will, that if you get declined for life insurance you become life insurance toast from then on. You might as well buy accidental death insurance and just hope that space junk and not cancer is the cause of your...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 4, 2012 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, DUI, insurance, life insurance
The rule of thumb for single DUI incidents has always been that you just can’t get new life insurance after a DUI until you’re a year out from your finger missing your nose, your liver functions are normal and there is no history of alcohol abuse. Or at least...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 11, 2012 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance, physicians life insurance
While hardly a problem that is restricted to people in the medical fields, simply based on the number of physicians and dentists I have worked with over the past few years, it seems their easy access to the drugs and or ability to write prescriptions is a growing...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 28, 2012 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, decline, diabetes, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I got an email from a life insurance agent today asking me if I could recommend a guaranteed issue life insurance company in Massachusetts. He indicated that he had run into several clients that were uninsurable and wanted to find the best company to write graded...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 23, 2011 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance
I’m currently working on a life insurance case where the client, a physician, sought and completed treatment 4 years ago for prescription drug abuse. We shopped this last year and got an offer from Banner Life. The case was declined in underwriting because they...
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