by Ed Hinerman | Apr 12, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
You know, the life insurance business is like waking up in a different world every day. For an independent life insurance agent there is a constant flow of clients with various impairments. Not a day goes by when you aren’t working hard to find someone who has...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 8, 2007 | cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, guaranteed issue life insurance, heart attack, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
One of the life insurance “urban legends” has to do with the large jump life insurance rates take when you turn 50, and again at 60, and well, let’s not even talk about 70. The truth is that while the cost per thousand of life insurance does in fact...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 5, 2007 | cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), epilepsy, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
If I were speaking to an auditorium full of people, a specially selected audience, all of whom had type 1 or type 2 diabetes, or epilepsy, and I asked for a show of hands for everyone who had tried to buy life insurance since their diagnosis, likely I would see a...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 30, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
I will simply start with my standard off the shelf advice. If you talk to a life insurance agent, mention you had breast cancer, and they immediately tell you that you are uninsurable, they are either stupid or lazy, or both. Go find an independent agent that...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 28, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
As treatment for all types of cancer have improved, life insurance underwriters have been forced to re-evaluate their guidelines for different types of treatment and how the mortality experience has actually changed. One good example is with prostate cancer. While the...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 24, 2007 | cancer, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
A frequently asked question about life insurance is “how long before the policy becomes effective?” The supposed “waiting period” has evolved from a misunderstanding from two different directions.Along with the waiting period question is also a...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 22, 2007 | cancer, guaranteed issue life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life
Just finishing up today and getting ready to drive to where my parents live. My father has bladder cancer and is meeting with the oncologist tomorrow to discuss what steps might be best. At his age 84, he of course has long since quit worrying about life insurance and...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 22, 2007 | cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
Coronary artery disease (CAD), heart attacks, angioplasty and bypass surgery are generally enough to make the average life insurance agent run for the hills. As they close the door or hang up the phone they will probably be sputtering something about uninsurable. Time...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 20, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), hepatitis, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, universal life, whole life
There is certainly no lack of unjustified respect for some of the biggest names in life insurance in the country. If you’ve seen their name on television or in magazines it kind of sticks with you and you probably, like most folks, assume that big and famous,...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 17, 2007 | cancer, guaranteed issue life insurance, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
Probably nothing rubs me the wrong way worse than an insurance agent who tells someone they are uninsurable just because they don’t represent a company that will make an offer on a particular health problem. Sometimes these agents don’t even understand the...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 14, 2007 | cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), hypertension, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
Go figure how a website can make it to the top of Google under the search “Life insurance for diabetics” and be completely uninformative and actually misleading. They start off with statements like this, “Once a person is diagnosed with diabetes,...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 9, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
Uninsurable and breast cancer used to be synonymous in life insurance, no matter the type, stage or grade. It wasn’t that long ago that cancer of any type was generally talked about in the context of how many weeks or months someone had left to live. Thanks to...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 6, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, return of premium term insurance, term insurance
Most people in their 20’s haven’t thought of and don’t care about life insurance, unless possibly one of their parents has died and either did or didn’t have adequate life insurance. Parents, it’s time to talk about the facts of life....
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 4, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
Like so many urban legends or wives tales, there is the notion going around that many people cannot get life insurance, or at the very best they have to have been cancer free for at least 10 years. Breast cancer survivors have been on the wrong end of this information...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 3, 2007 | cancer, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, prostate cancer, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
I was recently speaking to a woman in Arizona and she made the comment that her husband would really like to have term life insurance, but he had been told that he was uninsurable. Being the nosy kind of guy I am, and knowing that she is a nurse and would have good...
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