by Ed Hinerman | Apr 15, 2009 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), decline, Depression, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Sleep apnea
I’ve certainly questioned the IQ of more than one life insurance underwriter over the years. I may have even insinuated that a few didn’t even make into on to the IQ scale. But the truth is there are two types of underwriters working on life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 22, 2009 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, cancer, Depression, diabetes, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I am 56 and I can tell you honestly that 3 years ago I had never read a blog, didn’t know what it was or what it was for. I just knew that for my business to grow, for us to reach more and more people blocked out of life insurance for the same old reasons by the...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 18, 2009 | A1c, AARP, Anxiety, beneficiary, bipolar, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, bypass surgery, cancer, Dave Ramsey, Depression, diabetes, foreign travel, gastric bypass, guarantee, heart attack, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, Independent agent, insurance, key man insurance, kidnap, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, New York Life, obesity, prayer, private pilots, prostate cancer, Prudential, PSA, ransom, scuba diving, skydiving, Sleep apnea, stroke, suicide clause, suze orman, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, universal life, variable universal life, whole life, women
It’s been a fascinating couple of years. I will sum it up by saying that we have helped a lot of people get life insurance who never thought they could. And what better way to celebrate the information we’ve shared and the victories we’ve had than...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 11, 2009 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, Prudential
The truth is that I doubt if anyone makes it through life without situational anxiety or depression and there are days when I would swear the whole world is ADD, so what’s the big deal? For years a lot of the more conservative life insurance companies have with...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 1, 2009 | AARP, cancer, Depression, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, New York Life
I had posed a question to the Latino community a few weeks ago asking whether a life insurance website in Spanish with a direct line to bilingual staff would be something helpful. New York Life recently unveiled exactly what I was talking about. Yes, this is the same...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 16, 2009 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, Depression, heart attack, high blood pressure, obesity, Sleep apnea, stroke
Up until a few years ago sleep apnea, even well controlled with a cpap, was just one of those health issues that you could expect wouldn’t get much better than a standard plus approval from the best of life insurance underwriters. The same could be said of...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 12, 2009 | Depression, diabetes, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
Shopping for life insurance is no big trick if you’re healthy, young and boring. This is the one area where the giant on line agencies may actually provide good service. Anything more complicated than young, healthy and boring is definitely where the services of...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 24, 2008 | bipolar disorder, cancer, Depression, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
To all of you have shared in this blog and have helped in our quest to make life insurance less of a mystery and more attainable, Merry Christmas. Whether you have sought our assistance in applying for life insurance that had proved challenging or you just sought us...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 23, 2008 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
There is probably no better feeling for me (and my clients) than turning their previous experience of being declined for life insurance into an approval for the insurance that they want for their family. For those who have been declined, it’s the same feeling as...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 16, 2008 | cancer, cholesterol, Depression, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
The long standing argument about how much cholesterol is the right amount rages on. For one of my clients it rages on a front that we rarely see. This person has a total cholesterol level of 87. It has been drilled in to most of us that the other end of the spectrum,...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 17, 2008 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, decline, Depression, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, seizure disorder
Still fresh in my mind is the story a client related to me about her experience of being declined for life insurance due to bipolar disorder. This was news to her since she didn’t have bipolar disorder. In talking through the situation with her she did bring up...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 15, 2008 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, cholesterol, Depression, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Over the years we have offered discussion on how to get the best possible life insurance rates even though your health is less than perfect. The truth is that with perfect health and family history you can probably find good rates at any number of sources and how to...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 15, 2008 | bipolar disorder, decline, Depression, insurance, life insurance, seizure disorder
What kind of an insane question is that? Let me try a few commonalities that probably come to mind if you have bipolar and and have applied for life insurance. How about….all life insurance underwriters think bipolar disorder is a perfectly good reason to...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 14, 2008 | blood pressure, cholesterol, Depression, diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, long term care, private pilots, stroke
You know the rates I’m talking about. You see them advertised everywhere and it makes it seem as though life insurance is almost free, simply there for the picking. In the industry those rates are called things like preferred plus, preferred elite, select...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 12, 2008 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
We have been blessed with a lot of success in helping those with well controlled bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder and depression, find life insurance companies who will, first and foremost, give them a fair hearing and secondly, make fair offers on coverage. I was...
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