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... 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...
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