by Ed Hinerman | Oct 31, 2020 | atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease (CAD), heart attack, heart disease, life insurance
I wrote this post three and a half years ago and there have been several positive changes in the life insurance underwriting of heart disease and heart disorders. I hope the updated information below will give you the answers you need about how to acquire life...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 6, 2018 | atrial fibrillation, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
So, BNP (natriuretic peptide). What the heck is it? In layman’s terms (so I can understand it), BNP is a protein release by the heart that could indicate congestive heart failure. But listen up all of you life insurance underwriters……It could mean a...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 9, 2016 | abnormal ekg, abnormal labs, atrial fibrillation, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, doctor's recommendation, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
We’ve discussed BNP and proBNP in this forum before and the life insurance underwriting, or lack of, that goes with a high reading. Much like some companies used to do with the liver function test GGT, the underwriter would immediately assume they client drinks...
by Ed Hinerman | May 20, 2015 | application process, approval, arrythmia, atrial fibrillation, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, decline, doctor's recommendation, heart attack, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting
I ran into a client over a year ago who presented me with one of those life insurance scenarios that brings out the gag reflex in even the best of underwriters, one of “those issues” that has been an automatic decline since life insurance was invented, an...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 9, 2015 | abnormal ekg, abnormal labs, arrythmia, atrial fibrillation, bait and switch, impaired risk life insurance, indexed universal life, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting
The other guys! That would be most agents and agencies out there who aren’t inclined to ask you to do homework before they provide a life insurance quote, but here’s the deal, if they provide you a quote at all it won’t be as accurate as mine almost...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 12, 2007 | arrythmia, atrial fibrillation, heart attack, heart disease, life insurance
According to the American Heart Association, about 2.2 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, a form of arrhythmia to some degree. It seems like this year about half of them have inquired about life insurance through our office. Like most health issues, life...
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