The Journey To The Center!

Over the years I’ve talked about the 1% of life insurance companies that actually address both issues that matter the most to clients, approval and price. Being the grandiose kind of guy I am I was thinking about this in the context of a universe of companies,...

Life Insurance Love.

Ah, the sting of being declined or being rated practically to death when you apply for life insurance. Do they really think you are on death’s door or do they just dislike you personally? Perhaps that life insurance company has a quota that limits the amount of...

Are They All Created Equal? Duh, No!

I just wanted to share a few examples of why it’s important to shop every impaired risk life insurance application for sure and not a bad idea to shop all cases. I’ve beat on this over the years because so many life insurance agents out there are willing...

Mission For HIV+ Life Insurance Still Under Way!

In the business of serious impaired risk life insurance, I celebrate each victory, and never take it for granted that the next one will be the same or end in an approval. We just got another HIV+ life insurance approval, this time for an executive in a large city...

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...

If One Size Really Did Fit All!!

If all agents and all companies were created equal, well, you might as well get rid of all the agents and created “The Insurance Company”, completely computerized and ready to mistreat everyone on an equal basis. But alas we live in the real world and...

How Easy Is It To Collect On Life Insurance

It’s really not that much work, but there are some unexpected things that pop up during the process that, well, would be handy to know. It might lower the stress level, something that anyone grieving the loss of a loved one would welcome. First let me say...

So You Are Taking Your Bat And Ball And Going Home?

They would probably have a holiday named after me if every customer walked away completely satisfied but you just get more customers when almost all of them do. It’s OK because personally I think we have over done the holiday thing especially because if the...

Life Insurance Underwriting! Art, Science Or WAG?

Since the ING Reliastar cholesterol ratio bell curve debacle 3 years ago I’ve been given to musing about what really goes on behind the closed doors or a life insurance underwriter’s office. Are they in there pouring through records and giving credits and...