The Life Insurance Penalty For Pro Activity!

Coming off a post just a few days ago where I beat the compliance drum into a lather because that is what life insurance underwriters want to see, I turn around and shop a case where all of the underwriters fly in the very face of what they said and what I repeated. I...

Why Can’t I Exclude My Heart From My Life Insurance Policy?

A client I’m working with is getting a little frustrated because, in order to keep his obligations, he is going to have to convert a current term policy coming to the end of its’ guaranteed level premium period. When I say he is going to have to do this...

We Need To Have A Talk!

That phrase is usually followed by a conversation that you may end up feeling you really didn’t need to have, but I’m here with a breath of fresh air, a talk we need to have about how to get better life insurance rates when you have diabetes. Why now? Why...

Why Is A Life Insurance Standard Rate So, Standard?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being approved for life insurance at a standard rate class or higher, unless you qualify for a better rate class through another company. There are a large number of companies that don’t even offer multiple rate classes....

OK. I Get It, But Is It Going To Kill You?

I guess on some level I get that if you have coronary artery disease, you will always have it and I get that people with early onset CAD, actuarialy life insurance speaking are a worse life insurance risk than someone who is diagnosed, say, in their 50’s. But...

Proactive Health Kills Life Insurance!

I’m working on one of those stranger than fiction life insurance cases right now. When I shopped it and got the first round of responses I literally sent all of them back out and ask them if they had read my request correctly. Surely they had missed something...

Let The Life Insurance Underwriting Parade Begin!

It’s barely been a month since one of our highest rated carriers announced huge breakthroughs on cancer life insurance underwriting. With some cancers they did away with the one year waiting period post treatment, instead opting for a more aggressive approval...

Life Insurance Underwriters More Reasonable Than You Might Think!

I’ve certainly questioned the IQ of more than one life insurance underwriter over the years. I may have even insinuated that a few didn’t even make into on to the IQ scale. But the truth is there are two types of underwriters working on life insurance...