by Ed Hinerman | Jun 9, 2008 | cigar smokers, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, smoking
Ahh! The good old days when smokers were smokers except with one life insurance company, some smokers weren’t smokers. This actually wasn’t all that long ago, maybe a year and a half, but there was a company called US Financial who truly looked at things...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 7, 2008 | diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, stroke, Type 2 diabetes
I have written in the past about life insurance underwriting on type 2 diabetes and also on heart disease. I think I have been very clear about the fact that life insurance underwriters are adamant about good control of diabetes and also we’ve discussed the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 6, 2008 | diabetes, epilepsy, heart disease, insurance, key man insurance, liver functions, long term care, obesity, return of premium term insurance, universal life
There is a common misconception that has floated around for the past 100 years or so of my life that if a person has cardiac problems, a heart attack, or coronary artery disease (CAD) requiring heart bypass surgery or an angioplasty, they are irreparably damaged in...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 5, 2008 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
OK. It’s been months, but Suze Orman has crawled back out of her cave and pretended that she knows all that needs to be known about life insurance. I am a huge advocate of the fact that term life insurance works well for most life insurance needs. The truth is...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 5, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Type 2 diabetes
Everyone believes they should get the preferred plus rates that are advertised everywhere. “Di you know that John can have $500,000 of term life insurance for just $12 per month?”. The truth is that many qualify for those rates and get them, but for the...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 3, 2008 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Just as a practical matter the underwriting of private aviation may have to be reviewed. One of the guidelines that most companies have historically used is annual hours flown. Typically a company wants to see annual hours at or above 26. With the price of all fuel...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 3, 2008 | insurance, life insurance
I would probably be well advised to tread carefully when it comes to mixing my business with politics, but being my own adviser, I tend to tell it the way I see it and let the chips fall wherever. Allow me to share a few things that have struck me as important when it...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 3, 2008 | arthritis, cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
When you blow past that 50 mark in your life it seems that the aches and pains are more frequent and often show up without any good reason. I remember when I was younger playing 36 holes of golf (carrying my bag) and while I was tired, sore was not a problem. Now at...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 2, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
The not so funny standing joke in the estate planning business is that the most lucrative plan would be a plan to die in 2010. The meat behind that joke is, of course, the estate tax revision law that was was passed not long after Bush took office that started reform...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 1, 2008 | heart attack, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, stroke
I was having a discussion with a private pilot concerning life insurance one day. This particular pilot had been a client for some time and a few year earlier had suffered something akin to a stroke. The FAA had pulled his license after the incident. He was calling to...
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