by Ed Hinerman | Jan 17, 2023 | diabetes, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
 It Keeps Getting Better! Life insurance for adults with type 1 diabetes has continued to improve since I last updated this post in 2019. Testing, monitoring and insulin administration has been improving as fast as any technology and these advancements have the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 3, 2018 | business life insurance, CEO life insurance, clinical underwriting, Hep C Cure, HIV business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
To say that the nature, the underwriting and the life insurance products have changed and changed remarkably over the last 10 years is an understatement. There is the old world of life insurance and now we are really, truly living in a new world and customers, both...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 5, 2017 | business life insurance, HIV business life insurance, HIV life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, personal life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
With the king sized jacking around that life insurance companies are giving HIV+ clients and the agents that fight for them I am occasionally left wondering if the whole game is worth it. Life insurance companies seem to decline and very rarely approve these policies...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 21, 2016 | compliance, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
I suppose with that title this post could go about any direction, but what I had in mind was life insurance as affected by type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Both types of diabetes, given optimal age of onset, current age and control as measured by your quarterly A1c...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 19, 2015 | application process, approval, budget, business life insurance, children's life insurance, compliance, diabetes, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
I was contacted today by a woman who was pretty distressed by the fact that Gerber Life wouldn’t approve her 17 year old daughter for life insurance. The young lady has type 1 diabetes and I want to touch on a couple of subjects with this particular situation....
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 4, 2015 | Burial insurance, children's life insurance, conversion, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, whole life
There are really only two reasons to consider life insurance for your children. One would be if a low cost burial policy, as much as most parents would rather not think about that, is easier to manage than actually coming up with burial costs out of pocket rather than...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 29, 2014 | application process, approval, coronary artery disease (CAD), decline, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, over 50 life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being approved for life insurance at a standard rate class or higher, unless you qualify for a better rate class through another company. There are a large number of companies that don’t even offer multiple rate classes....
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 25, 2014 | A1c, approval, CEO life insurance, decline, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
Using the tax free death benefit of life insurance for estate protection sure isn’t a new idea, but consider the challenge of a widow that has too much income, not as rare as I thought. I am working with a woman in her early 70’s, a retired company CEO,...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 6, 2014 | Depression, diabetes, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
And when I answer the phone, and it’s me who answers it, I truly want to know just that. How can I help you? If you found me you probably have already experienced life insurance agents who couldn’t help you or wouldn’t help you. You may have suffered...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 22, 2013 | A1c, approval, compliance, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
I love it when companies finally make forward progress in life insurance underwriting of well controlled health issues. What I can’t work with is when they get weak kneed a year later and throw all the engines in reverse. We’ve been through that kind of...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 4, 2013 | approval, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
Years ago I put out lists of criteria for different life insurance impairments, lists that were designed as a template, as guidelines for what it takes to get approved by the more progressive impaired risk life insurance companies. What I’ve found is that it...
by Ed Hinerman | May 13, 2013 | A1c, blood pressure, cancer, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
Not everything that goes on in our medical lives is memorable. If our blood pressure is always in the normal range more than likely we are going to remember our last blood pressure reading. Unless I was deathly ill there is no way that I would remember what my...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 30, 2012 | approval, bipolar disorder, decline, gastric bypass, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
Being in the impaired risk end of the life insurance business, and specializing in helping people who aren’t having any fun with their life insurance experience, almost everyone who calls or emails me has on thing in common. The have unfortunately allowed the...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 20, 2012 | A1c, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
There’s always a little hesitance on my part to proclaim an underwriting breakthrough to actually be an underwriting breakthrough for a couple of reasons. First, life insurance underwriting guidelines have been known to change for the better and back again and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 16, 2012 | diabetes, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
I feel like one of those people who puts tacks in a map every time they visit another state. I am literally sticking pins in the type 1 diabetes life insurance approval map and the number of areas where we are getting approvals is growing every few weeks. As covered...
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