by Ed Hinerman | Sep 14, 2009 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance
I am currently working with a client who, when we got his labs back, was staring at an A1c of 10.9 and a microalbumin of 6.0. This, by the way is an instant decline since he was obviously has undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. So what exactly does an A1c mean? Just how out...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 11, 2009 | insurance, life insurance
If only we knew! If only we knew when our health was going to change from good to bad we could buy life insurance at the optimal time. If only we knew when we were going to die we could pay out as little as possible on life insurance with the maximum return to our...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 10, 2009 | bait and switch, insurance, life insurance
I called a client of mine the other day because not too long after I had done an annual review of his term life insurance coverage I received a notice that he had applied with another company and was considering replacing the policy he had through me. Now I really...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 9, 2009 | AARP, insurance, life insurance
I can rant and rave all day long about the perverse way AARP treats its’ members with their insurance programs, and I do, but that’s just my professional opinion. I recently received a personal opinion from a person whose mother is an owner of one of the...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 8, 2009 | insurance, life insurance
I wrote a post on September 2 concerning a client who had a bad experience in attempting to get life insurance through Selectquote. He emailed to provide more details and one of those details was a misunderstanding of mine that I want to correct. I had indicated that...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 3, 2009 | insurance, life insurance
Dogs get fleas awareness month! Everything is getting more expensive awareness month! I was reading a Reuter’s article on LIAM, Life insurance awareness month yesterday and I really thought it would kind of leave the average reader saying, “So what?”...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 2, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
2/3 of 2009 have slipped by and there is just no denying anymore that the industry trend for external guarantee life insurance policies such as term insurance and universal life with a no lapse guarantee has changed. Term insurance has been going down in price and...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 1, 2009 | insurance, life insurance
I wrote a post back in early August about a man who had contacted me after a rather dubious interaction with Selectquote while trying to buy life insurance. After shopping his case for him and determining that several companies were willing to set aside his treatment...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2009 | bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
Another bipolar disorder success today. A client I have been working with who applied with State Farm and USAA and received highly rated offers from both was able to get a standard rate through one of our better carriers, more than cutting in half his potential life...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 31, 2009 | cancer, insurance, life insurance
Lung cancer is one of the most deadly cancers in the world today, accounting for 18% of worldwide cancer related deaths. It has also, in all my years of studying and following breakthroughs in early detection, been the most stubborn in avoiding advances in clinical...
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