by Ed Hinerman | May 21, 2013 | Anxiety, decline, Depression, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, physicians life insurance
I’ve gone and fooled myself again. I’ve been so adamant about the pathetic underwriting from 99.5% of life insurance companies that I sometimes forget that in that one half of once percent of companies that do great things, there are still humans...
by Ed Hinerman | May 2, 2013 | application process, approval, decline, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
I know what drives the reaction, the knee jerk response of applying to every insurance company who will accept an application. It’s a desperation that grows out of a declined life insurance application and the idea that the more people you get your information...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 12, 2012 | accidental death, Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, decline, DUI, insurance, life insurance
There is this perverse notion, an urban legend if you will, that if you get declined for life insurance you become life insurance toast from then on. You might as well buy accidental death insurance and just hope that space junk and not cancer is the cause of your...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 31, 2012 | impaired risk life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots, professional car racing
I’ve been working some particularly tough impaired risk life insurance cases lately and it really drove it home to me that if a person with higher risk life insurance impairment is using an agent who only represents one or two or three companies, they have...
by Ed Hinerman | May 30, 2012 | approval, bipolar, bipolar disorder, decline, insurance, life insurance
I just want to go on record as saying I don’t write this kind of post to brag. I share these victories occasionally to help keep the hope alive for so many with bipolar disorder or other mood disorders who have been declined or abused with a high rating for no...
by Ed Hinerman | May 16, 2012 | Dave Ramsey, Depression, insurance, life insurance, Sleep apnea
I am about to go off on Selectquote again but let me show you the new kinder, gentler side of my opinionated self. Selectquote handles, from what I’ve heard, about 100,000 applications a year. They’ve been the king of the hill for quite a while so that...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 15, 2012 | Anxiety, decline, insurance, life insurance
It’s no secret that by far the majority of my non private pilot clients have been declined for life insurance before they came to me. There is just something about being declined that is personal, a little humiliating, maybe scary and really ticks people off....
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 28, 2012 | basal cell carcinoma, cancer, decline, insurance, life insurance, melanoma
I got a call yesterday from a woman who had just been declined for a new life insurance because she had two melanomas in the last 11 years. After the second melanoma she decided she was a little more mortal than she had originally figured and wanted to increase her...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 2, 2012 | Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
I am starting this new year very optimistically. Thanks to the hard work and savvy of my SEO guy we are reaching more and more of you who have been abused, declined or just left behind by agents or agencies that aren’t into doing the work it takes to properly...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 6, 2011 | cholesterol, Independent agent, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance
Where has our American “get er done” philosophy gone? It seems like I run into cases everyday where a person’s life insurance agent gives up if they application is not approved at the rate they thought their customer would get, or even declined. I...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 23, 2011 | blood pressure, cigar smokers, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, smoking
I know I go through some weeks sure that all life insurance underwriters are kind of mechanical. They look at the records and the labs and look in their underwriting guide and stamp the appropriate approval on it and then on to the next. No emotions. Just the facts...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 20, 2011 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance quotes, life insurance
Gosh. It’s been a while since I’ve talked about bipolar disorder life insurance and the continued success we are having placing reasonably priced life insurance for bipolar and the whole gamut of mood disorders. Since it has been a while let’s review...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 17, 2011 | business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, insurance, key man insurance, life insurance
Probably very close to 100% of the time a person can go about obtaining life insurance with the traditional application, exam and underwriting period. But there are exceptions. The truth is I don’t recommend that anyone that needs life insurance and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 16, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
Let me answer the question first and then go on to explain. Tell the agent NO and go find an agent that can deal with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have been helping a client with type 1 diabetes get life insurance. He had been declined by...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 15, 2011 | bait and switch, final expense life insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
After being beat up yesterday by a final expense life insurance agent that didn’t like my opinion of final expense insurance companies, I’m feeling the need to vent. Folks, this is all about life insurance customer service, where the customer comes first...
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