by Ed Hinerman | May 6, 2010 | cholesterol, insurance, life insurance
I have a client who is an internal medicine doctor. It is his opinion that the importance of cholesterol levels and their relevance to potential coronary artery disease are overstated. This is problematic for him (and his patients) when it comes to acquiring life...
by Ed Hinerman | May 4, 2010 | insurance, life insurance
Men are a never ending source of amazement to me. Men who are husbands, fathers or businessmen, the kind of men that you would think would wake up each day understanding who and what depends on them, seem to think that life insurance is a waste of money. What ever...
by Ed Hinerman | May 3, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, suze orman
A few years ago I wrote a post sharing my feelings about getting life insurance advice from Suze Orman, expressing at that time that she was “a true life insurance idiot”. I just finished watching a recent offering by her on you tube and while she has made...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 29, 2010 | insurance, life insurance
The life insurance claims process isn’t something people give a lot of thought to until you’re there. And to complicate things it will be at a time when, unless the death has been expected for some time, you will be a bit scattered just because there are...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 29, 2010 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I’ve gone over and over the criteria for successfully acquiring life insurance if you have bipolar disorder, really any mood disorder, the same criteria posted our bipolar life insurance site. 1. Someone who has not been hospitalized for bipolar disorder other...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 26, 2010 | insurance, life insurance
This post was inspired by a tragedy some good friends went through recently. They discovered their 19 year old son dead, having killed himself. It wasn’t a suicide. He choked himself to death, the “choking game”, a practice among kids his age. A high...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 22, 2010 | cholesterol, HDL, insurance, life insurance
For years the underwriting benchmark for life insurance’s best rate class has been a cholesterol ratio of 5.0, 4.5 by some more conservative companies. The cholesterol ratio is determined by dividing total cholesterol by HDL, good cholesterol. For instance,...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 21, 2010 | family history, insurance, life insurance
Most of the time we don’t mind being historically linked to our parents, that is until that link pops up in the life insurance underwriting category of family history. With just a few exceptions the family history question on most life insurance applications...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 20, 2010 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I was just doing a double check on underwriting results today and decided to compare how we’ve done in placing policies with clients who have bipolar disorder versus those who have a history of an eating disorder. Now remember we’re talking about life...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 20, 2010 | insurance, life insurance
I’ve often talked about the good old days of life insurance. Good for the clients. Good for the agents and the companies too, and not all that long ago. It was a time when companies had the freedom to compete for business even when it involved policies that were...
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