by Ed Hinerman | Oct 14, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, no exam, senior life insurance
If you can get life insurance without taking an exam, called simplified issue insurance, without donating blood and urine and blocking out 20-30 minutes of your time, why would anyone buy a traditional term life insurance policy that requires an exam? Seems like a...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 9, 2010 | incontestability, insurance, life insurance, pilot, skydiving
There has always been a stigma attached to life insurance and life insurance companies that they really will do all they can to get out of paying a life insurance claim. People really want, on some level, to believe life insurance companies really don’t pay out...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 23, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, obesity
Obesity has always been a life insurance underwriting challenge. Companies are keenly aware that while weight may not kill you, it dramatically increases your risk of everything from heart disease to cancer. The explosion in type 2 diabetes worldwide can be directly...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 23, 2010 | Depression, insurance, life insurance
There’s depression and then there’s depression. I talk to a lot of people who are being treated for mild chronic depression or situational depression and the truth is that from a life insurance underwriting standpoint, there’s not a lot of risk....
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 15, 2010 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I went to the big city with my wife the other day. Now understand that I dislike shopping about as much as a person can, but a couple of times a year I will give in, amuse my wife, and do it with a smile. That is in sharp contrast to shopping for the best life...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 1, 2009 | cholesterol, insurance, life insurance
You’re applying for life insurance and they just sucked your blood and made you pee in a cup. You deserve to know what they know and there is no better way to do that than to request a copy of your labs. I have long like the proactive approach that West Coast...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 24, 2009 | heart attack, insurance, life insurance
Abnormal ekg’s make up a significant percentage of of the reason for postpones and declines on life insurance applications. Often it’s news to the applicant and just as often it’s something that their doctor may have told them about a long time ago...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 21, 2009 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
Back in mid July I started working on a life insurance case for a young man with type 1 diabetes. He had already discovered how easy it is to find a company to decline him, but the picture he painted was not one that led to a logical decline. He had the same strikes...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 24, 2009 | bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
We have come a long way in the past few years in finding the right companies with the right underwriters to be able to truly reach out and help those with bipolar disorder get affordable life insurance. We will likely never get to the point of being able to help those...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 17, 2009 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
You know what really is great about being able to get good rates and place policies in force for those with bipolar disorder? The families are so grateful because of all they’ve been through with the demeaning treatment and declines they have received at the...
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