by Ed Hinerman | Jun 9, 2016 | abnormal ekg, abnormal labs, atrial fibrillation, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, doctor's recommendation, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
We’ve discussed BNP and proBNP in this forum before and the life insurance underwriting, or lack of, that goes with a high reading. Much like some companies used to do with the liver function test GGT, the underwriter would immediately assume they client drinks...
by Ed Hinerman | May 28, 2016 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, mood disorder life insurance
I guess I certainly never claimed I was mood disorder free and in fact sometime during the life of this blog I likely owned up to long term mild depression and maybe a bit of anxiety. And until this last November I would have stuck to that story and made that my final...
by Ed Hinerman | May 5, 2016 | application process, Ex Patriot life insurance, Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, insurance, life insurance
I went to a barn dance a lot of years ago and discovered that doing the two step isn’t necessarily all about rhythm and footwork, but also knowing which direction to go. If you aren’t shuffling your way around the dance floor counter clock wise, you are...
by Ed Hinerman | May 4, 2016 | application process, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
Until very recently we have had to go almost exclusively to Lloyds of London for Key person, CEO loan collateral and buy/sell funding business life insurance when the client was HIV positive. There’s no need to beat redundant to death by going over all of the...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 26, 2016 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Those of you who have read this journey with me know that it has been a decidedly unfriendly trip since, almost two years ago now, the first life insurance companies said they were ready to entertain the underwriting of traditional life insurance for well controlled...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 19, 2016 | Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, mood disorder life insurance
Life insurance companies are humorous in the way they run toward good business and just as easily get cold feet and run away from it. They’ve told us since God created the heavens and the earth and life insurance that the factors that make up life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 17, 2016 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, insurable interest, insurance, International Business insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
The nice thing about having your own business is that, at least within the law, no one can tell you how to run it. We can recommend all we want that you flip those burgers just 15 seconds earlier or that you use gluten free beer in your beer battered fish filet, but...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 15, 2016 | application process, customer service, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
When I first got a taste of the insurance business I was 25 and got hired by Mutual of Omaha. Back in those days there was a real emphasis on training, some good and some not so good. After I started I spent two weeks all expense paid vacation (school) in Omaha and I...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 14, 2016 | age nearest, backdating to save age, customer service, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
How many phone calls or emails have I received suggesting that I must have made a mistake on a client’s life insurance quote because they’re really, for instance, age 50, not 51. Trust me! At my age adding a year to my life that I haven’t earned yet...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 8, 2016 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, doctor's recommendation, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance exam, life insurance underwriting
So here you are. You’ve made up your mind that you need life insurance to protect your family or your business. You’ve found an agent that you are comfortable with, an agent that seems knowledgeable about different types and reasons for life insurance,...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 7, 2016 | Hep C Cure, hepatitis, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, liver functions
I’m sure I had millions of people sitting by their computers waiting for me to follow up on my post a week and a half ago on how life insurance companies were going to treat the new cures for Hepatitis C. OK, I probably had the same two that are always there,...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 5, 2016 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, decline, insurance, life insurance, Medical Information Bureau, no exam, simplified issue life insurance
Let’s give a few minutes to the subject of simplified issue life insurance , aka no exam life insurance. If most life insurance companies ask a litany of health and background questions and require an exam with a full blood and urine workup, how can another ask...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 1, 2016 | application process, approval, bad customer service, bipolar disorder, CEO life insurance, decline, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
And with that you have applied for life insurance through Selectquote. What am I signing for?” You’re signing for your life insurance application so just take (in my case) your fat finger and pretend you’re signing your name on this tablet screen...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 24, 2016 | assumptions, bad customer service, bait and switch, guaranteed level premium, illustration, insurance, life insurance
Over the course of the last 30 years of being in and around the life insurance business I’ve seen agents and companies (and customers) make the products into the cure, the panacea, the over simplification and the shortcut to their end goal. Keep in mind that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 22, 2016 | application process, buy/sell life insurance, CEO life insurance, Ex Patriot life insurance, Foreign National Life Insurance, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance, retirement life insurance
I have a mentor/friend/business partner in life insurance of sorts in Denver who is a few years older than me (we have the 60’s covered) and we have kicked around retiring in Panama for a few years. The idea of Caribbean or Central American retirement certainly...
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