by Ed Hinerman | Jan 22, 2015 | angioplasty, coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I was going to start this post by saying, “If I was asked what a life insurance underwriter’s job duties are”, and then I decided no one would really ask me that so please allow me to inflict my opinion on you. Life insurance underwriters have to...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 26, 2013 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, CEO life insurance, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval
If being approved for life insurance was guaranteed then there would be no need for independent life insurance agents that specialize in impaired risk underwriting and know how to pick up the pieces after an underwriting train wreck and get things back on track. The...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 13, 2013 | BMI, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, lab results, life insurance, life insurance approval, mortality, mortality risk
Not long ago I went on a tear about American General’s use of the CRL Lab’s proprietary laboratory analyzing methodology called “Smart Score”. The blasting cap for that little tiff was a case that American General declined, obviously using the Smart Score numbers to...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 23, 2013 | accelerated death benefit, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance
I am always hesitant to give much attention to bells and whistles added to life insurance. Historically the bells and whistles have been a way to drive up the premium with little or almost no risk that the life insurance company will ever have to engage in paying out....
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 16, 2012 | diabetes, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
I feel like one of those people who puts tacks in a map every time they visit another state. I am literally sticking pins in the type 1 diabetes life insurance approval map and the number of areas where we are getting approvals is growing every few weeks. As covered...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 30, 2012 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I recklessly went out on a limb yesterday spreading a rumor that a major, well know A+ rated life insurance company was jumping on all of the cancer detection and treatment victories of the last several years and have changed their underwriting guidelines and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 26, 2012 | Anxiety, decline, Depression, hepatitis, insurance, life insurance
What a cold, cruel world we live in. Most of the time I am not surprised when someone calls because they they have been approved at a standard rate, sometimes a little worse for things like ADD, ADHD, mild anxiety or depression. A few days ago I got a call from...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 3, 2012 | Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, insurance, life insurance
As I ease my way into this market it is becoming clear that there are a lot of foreign nationals outside of the US who would like to own US life insurance and it is also becoming clear that it isn’t nearly as cumbersome a task as you might think. Are there hoops...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 5, 2011 | foreign nationals, insurance, International Business insurance, life insurance
With the ability I discussed yesterday to write foreign nationals through US life insurance companies, there is now an opportunity to consolidate and save money in international business partnerships that should have business buy/sell agreements. I am currently...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 28, 2010 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance
I’ve had health change surprises come out of nowhere before. I can still remember 30 years ago seeing the doctor for some innocuous thing and he did a blood workup. The result was a diagnosis of Raynauds disease. I was in my late 20’s and felt pretty good....
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 13, 2010 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
I’ve often talked about mortality risk being the basis for life insurance underwriting, but looking back I’ve never really explained what that means in the context of a “normal” lifespan. We all hear that Americans are living longer than ever,...
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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