by Ed Hinerman | Oct 28, 2013 | guaranteed issue life insurance, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance for gay couples, term insurance, universal life
Just a month ago there was only one step to getting life insurance if you were HIV positive. You filled out an application for guaranteed issue life insurance and sent in money, lots of money. Guaranteed issue whole life insurance was your only choice and even though...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 17, 2013 | Active Duty Military Life Insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance claim, Met Life
As much as I’m not a huge fan of the Met Life active duty life insurance stance, after these past few weeks, for those who qualify, it might be worth considering. My gripe with the way they offer their life insurance program for active duty military is that they...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 15, 2013 | approval, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, guaranteed issue life insurance, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Some nut case has been all over the internet search engines claiming a phenomenal life insurance underwriting breakthrough that will allow a large number of HIV positive people to get traditional life insurance up to $1 million. Since HIV became an issue in the...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 11, 2013 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had forwarded a post to three life insurance companies, Prudential, Banner Life and American General Life. The gist of the post was that it seemed to me and several of my colleagues that there had been a serious shift in mood...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 9, 2013 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, compliance, decline, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Life insurance underwriters have a one word answer to applicants who have been prescribed medicine, or recommended to take a test and not taken it. That word is decline. In a nutshell it comes under the heading of non compliant with treatment. I’m guilty of it...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 8, 2013 | approval, HIV Positive, insurance, lab results, life insurance, life insurance approval
So we’ve rounded the corner where we know we have life insurance carriers that will approve up to $1mm of life insurance, both term and permanent with life insurance underwriting guidelines that are custom made for just applicants who are HIV Positive. So you...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 7, 2013 | approval, HIV Positive, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
Over all the years I’ve been in life insurance I’ve talked with dozens of people who were HIV+ and needed life insurance and the only thing I could offer them was guaranteed issue life insurance. Guaranteed issue is exactly what it says. If you’re...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 4, 2013 | approval, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I would like to claim that I’ve been waiting on the edge of my seat, holding my breath, watching the horizon and all of those other things that would indicate that I believed we were on the verge of a traditional life insurance breakthrough for HIV positive, but...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 3, 2013 | HIV Positive, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
Until today I have had to point anyone HIV positive to the guaranteed issue life insurance market. Over the past 15 years we have seen huge strides in the treatment of HIV and with medical advances the ability to fully control it. For those of us who have been around...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 2, 2013 | insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting, mortality, mortality risk
It wasn’t that long ago that underwriting life insurance consisted of setting the application, exam and medical records next to a big underwriting guide (just my picture), matching up all of the maladies with a long ago predetermined mortality assumption and...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 26, 2013 | approval, cancer, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer
I’m working on a prostate cancer life insurance case right now that really begs the question, even though the biopsy showed cancer, 13 years of watchful waiting later, is everyone sure that biopsy was accurate? Was it correct? Since the cancer was only seen in...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 23, 2013 | Attention Deficit Disorder, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I am so glad that a life insurance company came clean with me this last week and admitted that, yes, they had in fact changed their stance on underwriting of bipolar disorder life insurance and other mood disorders as well. They admitted that a case that they had...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 19, 2013 | abnormal labs, application process, approval, impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
We’ve had an ongoing dialog the past month or so about life insurance predictive models or methodologies and how the life insurance industry might embrace and use this new technology to both help clients get better rates and put a more solid floor in...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 13, 2013 | BMI, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, lab results, life insurance, life insurance approval, mortality, mortality risk
Not long ago I went on a tear about American General’s use of the CRL Lab’s proprietary laboratory analyzing methodology called “Smart Score”. The blasting cap for that little tiff was a case that American General declined, obviously using the Smart Score numbers to...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 10, 2013 | application process, bait and switch, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, Sleep apnea
I had a potential customer call a few weeks ago and after having gone through all the health questions with him, I let him know that I just needed a little more detail on his sleep apnea in order to shop it for life insurance appropriately. After he told me that he...
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