by Ed Hinerman | Nov 22, 2019 | smoking
What difference does it make? I won’t make rocket science out of this for you. Cigarette smoking and more recently vaping can put you at risk of a large number of diseases, and yes, death. Life insurance companies probably won’t decline you if you smoke,...
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 | 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 | Aug 1, 2012 | insurance, life insurance, Medical Information Bureau, smoking
Second only to life insurance agents for being blasphemed by the life insurance buying public is the Medical Information Bureau, or MIB. The MIB is a super warehouse of health and lifestyle information gathered from life insurance applications as they are processed by...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 23, 2011 | blood pressure, cigar smokers, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, smoking
I know I go through some weeks sure that all life insurance underwriters are kind of mechanical. They look at the records and the labs and look in their underwriting guide and stamp the appropriate approval on it and then on to the next. No emotions. Just the facts...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 14, 2011 | Dave Ramsey, insurance, life insurance, smoking, term insurance
I had a call today from a couple who had stepped up to the plate a little over two years ago when they decided it was time to have a baby and they quit smoking. Now these weren’t real serious cigarette smokers, maybe smoking one in the evening or if they were...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 26, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
As independent life insurance agents there is a kind of longing for the good old days when US Financial offered non smoking rates to social smokers and when CNA would issue a policy to a smoker at non smoking rates, with the caveat that they had to quit smoking within...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 16, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
Let me answer the question first and then go on to explain. Tell the agent NO and go find an agent that can deal with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have been helping a client with type 1 diabetes get life insurance. He had been declined by...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 27, 2010 | Dave Ramsey, insurance, life insurance, smoking
I got in a bit of a tiff with Zander Insurance Group about a year and a half ago over, at that time, their not showing the best preferred smoker rates when their clients were getting on line quotes. Being a long time Dave Ramsey fan and moderator for his Financial...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 21, 2010 | cancer, life insurance, smoking
I was reading an article on MSN Health yesterday about how to talk to your doctor. It struck me that the same things would hold true for how to talk to a life insurance (or health insurance) agent. It also reminded me of previous posts where I’ve talked about...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 3, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
Let’s just cut to the chase on this subject. Men who smoke very often don’t carry life insurance because smokers have to pay, in general, 3-4 times more than a non smoker of comparable health. They have decided that the extra premium means life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 6, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
Life insurance has this whole little underwriting niche that comes under the heading of lifestyle. It’s not about health or family history and it’s not about your lab results, it’s about, well, your personal life. Probably the most common lifestyle...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 1, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
I would be the last person in the world to say that habits are easy to change, especially bad, life long, ingrained habits. But no kidding, there are some cases I really can’t wrap my mind around. The one that caught my “you’ve got to be...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 1, 2009 | Dave Ramsey, insurance, life insurance, smoking
I’ve never been seen smoking and I suspect that Dave Ramsey isn’t real big on the habit either, but after spending the last year and a half immersed in Dave Ramsey through his Financial Peace University, I am convinced that Dave Ramsey wouldn’t want...
by Ed Hinerman | May 13, 2009 | family history, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, smoking
If anyone out there is suffering from the illusion that your medical records are accurate, let me clue you in. The chance that your records contain substantive errors is about 75%. The chance that your records are error free is within the margin of error for 0%....
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