by Ed Hinerman | Jun 28, 2012 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
A real show stopper in the life insurance application process is when a PSA comes back high, or at least elevated compared to previous PSA’s. This has turned into something of a fussing point since, in most cases, life insurance underwriters will postpone an...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 26, 2012 | death benefit, incontestability, insurance, lapse, life insurance, life insurance claim process, reinstatement
With the possible exception of AARP, life insurance companies truly go out of their way to make sure every legitimate life insurance claim is paid and if the legitimacy of the claim is in a gray area, could really be seen both ways, they will almost always come down...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 22, 2012 | AARP, beneficiary, cancer, contestability, contestability period, death benefit, insurance, life insurance, New York Life
Can you imagine how bored I would get if I couldn’t count on AARP to provide blog material on an absolutely continuous, unending basis? After all of the really awful things I’ve had to say about the AARP/New York Life insurance program over the years, my...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 21, 2012 | accidental death, financial adviser, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
According to the US Census bureau about 2.5 million people die every year in the United States. That’s from all causes and all ages. Assuming all days are equal that means that about 6850 people die every day in our country. This is going to get a little deep...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 20, 2012 | Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, high net worth, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life
I received an update on new foreign national life insurance underwriting guidelines today from one of the country’s largest life insurance companies. They announced a liberalization of requirements for Mexican and Canadian citizens. From past posts you would...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 18, 2012 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
Some years ago I had a client who really hit on a hot button for professionals like her as a physician and others who wore hats from CEO’s to attorneys, dentists and even psychiatrists. In the original case it had to do with a physician who had taken an anti...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 12, 2012 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
The two things you can count on, death and taxes, right? Well, done correctly at least the two don’t need to be mixed. The Gold Nugget in life insurance death benefits has always been the fact that the proceeds are not income taxable. If you take out $500,000...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 11, 2012 | conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance, universal life, West Coast Life
I have tried to reach out to all of my clients that have been consumed by Protective Life over the years. Empire General, West Coast Life, Federal Kemper, Zurich Kemper, Chase and on and on to let them know that when Protective Life got all of those term life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 6, 2012 | A1c, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
I’ve talked often about the fact that easily 99% of life insurance companies underwrite by the book, the underwriting manual, and for most of them it hasn’t changed since we only had 49 states. If the word bipolar is on the application you are declined....
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 5, 2012 | diabetes, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
It’s what we’re all looking for, right? The path of least resistance. I know whenever I can I would prefer to do as little as possible and, really, honestly, I would kind of like instant gratification. Hey it leaves more time for the fun stuff. Getting...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 4, 2012 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, DUI, insurance, life insurance
The rule of thumb for single DUI incidents has always been that you just can’t get new life insurance after a DUI until you’re a year out from your finger missing your nose, your liver functions are normal and there is no history of alcohol abuse. Or at least...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 1, 2012 | AARP, contestability, contestability period, death benefit, insurance, life insurance, senior life insurance
I’ve minced no words over the years about how bad the AARP/New York Life life insurance program is. It is so egregiously over priced and under guaranteed that I swear, if I got selling it to some elderly person in their home, I could be justifiably locked up....
by Ed Hinerman | May 30, 2012 | approval, bipolar, bipolar disorder, decline, insurance, life insurance
I just want to go on record as saying I don’t write this kind of post to brag. I share these victories occasionally to help keep the hope alive for so many with bipolar disorder or other mood disorders who have been declined or abused with a high rating for no...
by Ed Hinerman | May 30, 2012 | cancer, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
Either life insurance underwriters aren’t buying into what researchers and doctors are saying about the PSA, prostate specific antigen test, or in the case of one underwriter she’s just believing what he wants to believe to get through this case and not...
by Ed Hinerman | May 24, 2012 | coronary artery disease (CAD), ejection fraction, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, LVEF
I just wrote yesterday about the difference between life insurance underwriters and doctors when it comes to how they view information and another on popped on the scene today that could be an interesting bit of sparring. The question at the center of this is whether...
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