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...

Breast Cancer Underwriting All Over The Map!

I am currently shopping for life insurance for a 50 year old nurse who had breast cancer in 2001. She had a lumpectomy and there was “a very small amount of cancer cells” found in one of the sentinel lymph nodes checked. Because of the lymph node she was...

Stage 0 Melanoma Life Insurance!

Call me naive, but there are almost daily occurrences of me seeing less mortality risk in a life insurance underwriting situation than the majority of underwriters. I get that they are paid to see everything through conservative lenses, but there are times when, to...

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...

Military Life Insurance Family History Underwriting!!

Me pass up an opportunity to question a life insurance company stance at the very core of its’ self proclaimed heart? Not on your life or over my dead body. USAA and MetLife are the self proclaimed most patriotic life insurance companies in the country. They...