by Ed Hinerman | Aug 25, 2011 | accidental death, High Limit AD and D, insurance, life insurance, motorcycle, pilot, private pilots, skydiving
Most of my work has been finding the best life insurance prices for people with impaired health, impaired risk life insurance. I won’t make any wild claims about being the best there is out there, but we are in a constant state of education and refining of...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 27, 2011 | accidental death, contestability, death benefit, hazardous activities, insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots, scuba diving, skydiving
Let’s start with the good news. If you have life insurance in force and you took up your hazardous activity after putting that life insurance policy in force, and didn’t apply for the insurance because you were anticipating taking up the dangerous hobby,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 2, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, skydiving
It’s never been a pretty picture applying for life insurance and wanting your favorite dangerous hobby to be completely covered. The problem for most of us going in is that we jump on the fun bandwagon without consulting our local life insurance underwriter....
by Ed Hinerman | May 24, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, skydiving, terrorism, travel insurance
Well, if it’s for the next five minutes you are out of luck, but if it’s for 5 minutes next week you can have your wish. And really I’m not talking about life insurance but rather accidental death insurance. Specifically this comes up when you get a...
by Ed Hinerman | May 9, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, skydiving, terrorism
I was talking to an associate I work with on travel insurance last week and he said that since Bin Laden’s death requests for acts of terrorism life insurance have gone up ten fold. It’s no big surprise I guess that people are concerned about retaliation...
by Ed Hinerman | May 6, 2011 | life insurance, pilot, skydiving, terrorism, travel insurance
I was working with a client who posed some interesting challenges for life insurance underwriting. Although as healthy as an underwriter could hope for, he is a skydiving instructor and also a skydiving jump plane pilot. Either of those, or both of those on a life...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 9, 2010 | incontestability, insurance, life insurance, pilot, skydiving
There has always been a stigma attached to life insurance and life insurance companies that they really will do all they can to get out of paying a life insurance claim. People really want, on some level, to believe life insurance companies really don’t pay out...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 20, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, skydiving
While there are plenty of life insurance companies and agents out there that stick their fingers in their ears when a client starts talking about their weekend hobby. The truth is there is an affordable and prudent way to approach the subject of life insurance for...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 14, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, skydiving
I had a customer call today with a question about whether his in force policy would cover him in case his birthday present, a chance to sky dive, didn’t work out so well. His policy has been in force with for 6 years and at the time he took it out he...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 31, 2009 | cancer, foreign travel, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, scuba diving, skydiving, smoking, student pilot
I finally got my wife to look the other way while I jumped out of an airplane for my 54th birthday. She’s always so nice about asking me what I want for my birthday, and for the past 5 years I hadgreat present. She steadfastly refused, not wanting to be a party...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 18, 2009 | A1c, AARP, Anxiety, beneficiary, bipolar, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, bypass surgery, cancer, Dave Ramsey, Depression, diabetes, foreign travel, gastric bypass, guarantee, heart attack, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, Independent agent, insurance, key man insurance, kidnap, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, New York Life, obesity, prayer, private pilots, prostate cancer, Prudential, PSA, ransom, scuba diving, skydiving, Sleep apnea, stroke, suicide clause, suze orman, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, universal life, variable universal life, whole life, women
It’s been a fascinating couple of years. I will sum it up by saying that we have helped a lot of people get life insurance who never thought they could. And what better way to celebrate the information we’ve shared and the victories we’ve had than...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 17, 2009 | basal cell carcinoma, blood pressure, cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, DUI, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, scuba diving, skydiving, smoking
I’m often asked, after the fact, what it takes to get the best life insurance rates. While I would be hard pressed to cover everything that could be hiding in your medical records, I can provide a general rundown based on the exam, labs, family and personal...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 15, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, scuba diving, skydiving
You’ve got some good news and you’ve got some bad news when it comes to life insurance underwriting for scuba divers. The good news is that there are still plenty of opportunities out there for preferred plus and preferred rates for those recreational...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 11, 2008 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, scuba diving, skydiving
Whenever I do an initial interview with a life insurance client we always touch on “avocation” questions, the dangerous hobby thing. In general the life insurance underwriter wants to know if you are actively increasing your mortality experience by having...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 19, 2008 | foreign travel, insurance, life insurance, skydiving
If you are planning a trip to the Olympics this summer, it’s time for a life insurance checkup to make sure you are covered for foreign travel, and if you are considering increasing coverage before you go, you need to apply now. Most life insurance you have in...
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