by Ed Hinerman | Feb 23, 2012 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
The way 99.9% of life insurance companies treat people with bipolar disorder drives me nuts. I’m not talking about an insurance company that fully underwrites an application and finds out something really sketchy in a person’s history. What slays me is...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 22, 2012 | heart attack, high blood pressure, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, obesity
I’m all for rounding off. I mean if I owed someone $9 and I had a ten in my wallet and they didn’t have change I would call it good. I know. I know. One of the reasons I’m not filthy rich or any other kind of rich. There is something of a rounding...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 20, 2012 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
I have decided to completely reverse my feeling about online mega agencies such as Selectquote and Accuquote. I have repeatedly inferred that they are the scum of the life insurance industry, that volume of business is more important than customer service, and that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 20, 2012 | Dave Ramsey, Depression, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
SAVE 70% ON LIFE INSURANCE. How often have we seen that little advertising flower bloom on our computer screens. I’ve explained in the past that there really isn’t any magic to that. The spread between the best priced life insurance companies and the worst...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 18, 2012 | cash value, Infinite banking, insurance quotes, life insurance, whole life
As promised I have been on a mission these past several months to prove the worth, or not, of the Infinite Banking system or the Be Your Own Banker concept, whichever title you subscribe to. I ordered and read my 5th edition “Becoming Your Own Banker” book...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 17, 2012 | accidental death, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, insurance, life insurance
I know there are agents that giggle all the way to the bank when they get an opportunity to sell a new policy and replace someone’s existing insurance, even though the existing insurance is still good for the client. I’ve had a lot of clients, or would be...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2012 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, business life insurance, decline, Depression, insurance, life insurance, physicians life insurance
If it isn’t crystal clear by now, it should be. People applying for life insurance with a current or past history of well controlled depression, anxiety, ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder and other mood disorders are being abusively rated or declined by most life...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 15, 2012 | Anxiety, decline, insurance, life insurance
It’s no secret that by far the majority of my non private pilot clients have been declined for life insurance before they came to me. There is just something about being declined that is personal, a little humiliating, maybe scary and really ticks people off....
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2012 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
The dreaded elevated PSA! Life insurance underwriters treat a PSA out of the normal 0-4.0 range or a PSA that is higher than your last PSA with the life insurance equivalent of shutting all the hatches on a sinking ship. Even though there are no less than half a dozen...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 13, 2012 | accidental death, insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots, student pilot
There are plenty of people who took up flying as a hobby. What a great thing to be able to fly up to Wyoming and visit my mom or just fly around this beautiful country and, even better, the beautiful state of Colorado I live in. But for a lot of us that took a big hit...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 6, 2012 | accidental death, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, disability income, insurance, life insurance, Lloyds of London, professional athletes
I have clients all over the Middle East doing everything from engineering to Afghan translation to security services. I have been working with a company out of Argentina that has oil field crews working revolving shifts in Iraq and it looks like we will have the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 4, 2012 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
One of the brightest gems in the new cancer life insurance underwriting that was unveiled this week is the possibility to get all the way back to preferred rates with the right cancer, the right outcome and, of course, the right agent and the right company. For as...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 2, 2012 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
I’m on about my 15th drum now. I’ve beat so many of them to death about life insurance guarantees that I have a restraining order keeping me away from the local drum shop. Life insurance companies have been selling assumptions on whole life and universal...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 1, 2012 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
When I was young growing up in Wyoming I remember being talked into a cow tipping trip one evening. I don’t know if this goes on everywhere, but in Wyoming adults really like to jack with kids by having them attempt urban, or in our case, country legends....
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 30, 2012 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I recklessly went out on a limb yesterday spreading a rumor that a major, well know A+ rated life insurance company was jumping on all of the cancer detection and treatment victories of the last several years and have changed their underwriting guidelines and...
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