by Ed Hinerman | Sep 21, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
Here is another area where men just don’t follow through and do the right things. Doctors say that after age 50 we should have our PSA (prostate specific antigen) checked once a year. No big deal. A little blood and a relatively inexpensive test. OK, all you...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 20, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
Having heard, in excruciating detail, the whole mammogram procedure from my wife, I can tell you that I would understand why women might be reluctant to have them done as frequently as doctors would like them to. Breast cancer is certainly an ominous enough issue to...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 18, 2007 | Biggest Loser, cancer, diabetes, insurance, life insurance
In studying for my previous post on the reality weight loss show, Biggest Loser, I came across what I consider to be an awesome feature of the show’s website. They actually have a doctor that hosts a blog. Dr Jen Kerns hosts a blog that provides medical answers...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 18, 2007 | Biggest Loser, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
Because I feel strongly about the need for more discussion and more education on the effects of obesity, what I started with ABC’s Fat March I will now take up with NBC’s Biggest Loser. Again, my focus is not the show or the internal contest or game. What...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 15, 2007 | cancer, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
It’s certainly no secret that life insurance underwriters have taken a hard line stance on the issue of smoking over the years. They have not taken lightly the connection between smoking and cancer, heart disease, copd and other health risks. Recently a couple...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 13, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
We’ve all heard the lead in, “I’ve got good news and bad news”. It seems with the potentially preventive drug for prostate cancer, Finasteride, there may be good news and bad…..and bad news and good news….. In the best of all worlds...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 11, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance
Continuing on with dissecting life insurance policies, the suicide and contestability clause is common to all policies, whether term insurance, whole life or universal life. Referring back to my policy, let’s look at the two provisions. Incontestability and...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 11, 2007 | cancer, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, term insurance, universal life
We have been gutting term life insurance this week starting with a look at an actual policy. Being a contract as it is, there are plenty of definitions and clauses and options and such. So my previous posts didn’t get too hefty, I picked out a few items to...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 8, 2007 | cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
It’s been another one of those weeks where people seem to be out to overthrow logic with, well, illogical thinking. It was about a tie between the insurance companies and those considering buying life insurance. They both seem to have a common flaw in the way...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 7, 2007 | cancer, epilepsy, guaranteed issue life insurance, insurance, private pilots
We’ve all heard some version of the story. A life insurance policy with an exclusion for anyone that dies if they are hit by a bus while wearing a green shirt on a Wednesday during August. Actually if the price was good, I would take that one. Don’t...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 4, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, Fat March, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
As the Fat March participants near the end of their 570 mile quest for weight loss, pounds continue to disappear and once again we will analyze the weight loss in the context of what impact it would have on life insurance rates. A couple of notes on participants that...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2007 | cancer, DUI, insurance, life insurance
I am always amazed at the thought process (or lack of) that people go through when we are discussing life insurance application questions. They must think that life insurance underwriters are really not very bright. While I have, on occasion, shared that opinion,...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, liver functions, prostate cancer, PSA
A question that comes up quite often when we discuss the examination part of a life insurance application is, just what is they are looking for? They are going to take blood and urine specimens so they must be on the hunt for something! I think the best way to answer...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 30, 2007 | cancer, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I’ve often written about the fact that smoking generally increases life insurance rates by at least 100%, all else being equal. The average is really closer to 150% to 200%. Some companies are substantially higher than that. Life insurance underwriters...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 28, 2007 | cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, Fat March, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, stroke, Type 2 diabetes
Episode 4, nearly 300 miles into their “march”, I continue to watch the progress both as an interested spectator and a life insurance professional. My goal in following this program has never been to be actively involved in it’s progress, but rather...
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