by Ed Hinerman | Nov 1, 2010 | bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance, suicide clause
I think we can all understand why life insurance underwriters might get a little squeamish about approving someone who has attempted suicide, especially if it was in the recent past. But what about suicidal thoughts or ideations with no real action or attempt? When I...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 20, 2010 | bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance, mortality risk
I’ve been specializing in “impaired risk” life insurance cases for the past 13 years and often find that people are confused about the term. They can get their mind wrapped around the idea that they have an impairment, but when you add the word risk...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 29, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Buying life insurance can be so easy today that it’s just crazy compared to 30 years ago. If you’re healthy and don’t have any dangerous hobbies you can quickly and easily get the family protection you need from one of the big on line agencies, a...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 25, 2010 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
It’s been an interesting 3 years working with bipolar clients and at times tripolar life insurance underwriters, but headway has been made and we are successful in filling our clients needs most of the time. The sad thing for me is that getting approvals without...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 19, 2010 | decline, insurance, life insurance, mortality
I won’t pretend that being declined for insurance doesn’t carry a sting. A common thought that comes with the decline is, “Do they think I’m about to die, or what”? Some perspective might help and maybe a little insight into how life...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 29, 2010 | Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance
Situational mood disorders such as stress related anxiety or depression are something that probably all of us have gone through at one point or another. We all fall into one of three groups in this area, 1. Those who muddle their way through and are able to get back...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 14, 2010 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
Most people that read my blog and call or email about life insurance for people with bipolar disorder or other serious mood disorders seem to be in their mid forties and below. Most but not all. We have had a fair number of successful professionals my age (55+),...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 29, 2010 | Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance
I don’t know what some life insurance companies are thinking when they rate a policy because someone was on or is on an anti depressant or anti anxiety medication due to something completely situational like a divorce, the loss of a job or a death in the family....
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 2, 2010 | Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance
Without going into a lot of detail because this blog really isn’t about me, let me say that I am in the midst of coming to grips with some long term depression issues that I have just kept at bay for the last 15 or so years. Because it’s on my mind I...
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 4, 2010 | Anxiety, insurance, life insurance
Depression is one of those life insurance issues I’ve been hearing about forever. Anxiety, on the other hand, was something I rarely heard about 10 years ago and today it seems anxiety treatment is almost as common as cholesterol treatment. I think I get that....
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 19, 2010 | heart attack, insurance, life insurance
I know for me that I consider daylight savings time to be a personal attack on my well being, and now there are studies to back it up. There has always been an acknowledged link between sleep deprivation and heart attacks, so it really wasn’t rocket science when...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 18, 2010 | bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
Life insurance is not underwritten based on your take on your health or your mental state. If it was the case, everyone would be approved at preferred plus. We have built a very good reputation over the years for being able to turn declined life insurance applications...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 6, 2010 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I was involved in an exchange on the Bipolar Disorder Forum of eHealthforum not too long ago. A person had been declined for life insurance and wanted to know if anyone knew the way out of the jungle. The person asking for help had been declined for life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 4, 2010 | A1c, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
There are plenty of people who would argue that 2009 could have been flushed down the toilet and not missed, and my prayers go out to all of those whose lives were derailed by the recession. For those I wish a dramatically better new year. But, when it comes to life...
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