by Ed Hinerman | Mar 13, 2014 | application process, approval, business life insurance, cash value, CEO life insurance, disability income, DUI, executives, High Limit AD and D, key man insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, over 50 life insurance
The CEO or President of a company, other than having more responsibility than most, is just like everyone else in this great country of ours. When it comes to life insurance they are subject to the same unscrupulous or poorly equipped life insurance agents and...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 7, 2014 | Biggest Loser, BMI, build, doctor's recommendation, gastric bypass, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
As life insurance companies have turned in the direction of more conservative underwriting of build (height, weight, bmi), the last 10 years has seen them really embrace weight loss surgery for the morbidly obese. That sure wasn’t always the case with gastric...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 27, 2014 | AIG, application process, assumptions, contestability, honesty, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting
I’ve often shared how frustrating it is from my perspective to be helping a client who is having trouble getting life insurance, and have them compound the seriousness of the work by lying to me, or being less than candid. Well hang on to your shorts life...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 6, 2014 | Depression, diabetes, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
And when I answer the phone, and it’s me who answers it, I truly want to know just that. How can I help you? If you found me you probably have already experienced life insurance agents who couldn’t help you or wouldn’t help you. You may have suffered...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 5, 2014 | application process, approval, customer service, impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
In a business that is absolutely brutal to succeed in, just like it is a real piece of work to find the best life insurance company for your situation, it is even harder to find an agent that can not just help you succeed, but treat you with respect along the way....
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 16, 2014 | approval, cigar smokers, e-cigarette life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, smoking
There is probably no worse platform to jump off of than answering the first page question on a life insurance application about whether you use tobacco or nicotine products, if you do. While I’ll get to some exceptions to the rule in a minute, with almost every...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 26, 2013 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, CEO life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
If being approved for life insurance was guaranteed then there would be no need for independent life insurance agents that specialize in impaired risk underwriting and know how to pick up the pieces after an underwriting train wreck and get things back on track. The...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 12, 2013 | approval, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, decline, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
It’s been amazing when I put the word out that I could business life insurance in tough situations quickly to see how many professionals I’ve been able to help when they are truly in a jam. The scenario usually goes something like one of these, 1. A...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 10, 2013 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, approval, CEO life insurance, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting
One of those set in stone rules that we have lived with for years in life insurance underwriting just got a new look and possibly a question that may not make the answer as black and white as most underwriters would like it to be. I am currently shopping a case where...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 5, 2013 | HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Feeling a little blindsided right now. I tread very carefully when it comes to any dramatic change in underwriting and as I’ve outlined in numerous posts, just recently two companies approached me saying that they were willing to underwrite HIV positive up to...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 26, 2013 | insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, smoking
Back in the day there was a company that underwrote life insurance for “social smokers”, which by their definition was anyone who smoked maybe two or three cigarettes a day. That was US Financial, the author and creator of the clinical underwriting idea....
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 25, 2013 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, decline, Depression, HIV life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer
With all the great things happening on so many fronts I thought it prudent to bring things up to date on mood disorder life insurance and specifically the continued success we are having placing well controlled bipolar disorder. Even with major breakthroughs in life...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 7, 2013 | HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
When you do a search for life insurance for HIV positive on Google you would have to believe that all that is still available is what has always been available, final expense guaranteed issue life and burial guaranteed issue life. These are small (less than $50,000)...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 4, 2013 | approval, decline, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I’ve said often enough to be considered redundant beyond reproach that a decline for life insurance is a good place to start. The thing about a decline is it flushes out all of the details that might have simply not been understood or forgotten by the client and...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 29, 2013 | HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer, PSA
Prostate cancer has been one of the easier cancers for life insurance underwriting for a long time, but the criteria for those low stage and grade cases has been expanded to areas not seen before. In recent weeks I’ve been all over this forum about breakthroughs...
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