by Ed Hinerman | Jun 2, 2011 | cholesterol, insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
I get industry updates almost daily when companies believe they have a niche that is going to the the magic bullet for a client. Sometimes I wonder if anyone really thinks it through before they yell, “Hey, look at us!” I’m a big fan of United of...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 1, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life
I had a comment to a post I wrote last year over the weekend. This person stated, “As a non financially educated guy, I have a really hard time understanding how people in the same industry can have such varying opinions how to insure oneself.” This...
by Ed Hinerman | May 26, 2011 | basal cell carcinoma, insurance, life insurance, melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma
There is no lack of bad advice and lame life insurance underwriting when it comes to any of the three types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma. At the core of the confusion seems to be multiple instances of anything....
by Ed Hinerman | May 24, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, skydiving, terrorism, travel insurance
Well, if it’s for the next five minutes you are out of luck, but if it’s for 5 minutes next week you can have your wish. And really I’m not talking about life insurance but rather accidental death insurance. Specifically this comes up when you get a...
by Ed Hinerman | May 13, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
So, a guy decides to learn how to fly. He wants to be a private pilot in the worst way. He signs up for lessons and after all the classroom curriculum is satisfied he and his flight instructor are finally ready to take off for the first flight. Other than the fact...
by Ed Hinerman | May 11, 2011 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
When you consider the opposite of stable is unstable it makes it easier to understand why life insurance underwriting uses stability as a benchmark for approval and rates for all mood disorder underwriting. Whether it is depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder life...
by Ed Hinerman | May 9, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, skydiving, terrorism
I was talking to an associate I work with on travel insurance last week and he said that since Bin Laden’s death requests for acts of terrorism life insurance have gone up ten fold. It’s no big surprise I guess that people are concerned about retaliation...
by Ed Hinerman | May 6, 2011 | life insurance, pilot, skydiving, terrorism, travel insurance
I was working with a client who posed some interesting challenges for life insurance underwriting. Although as healthy as an underwriter could hope for, he is a skydiving instructor and also a skydiving jump plane pilot. Either of those, or both of those on a life...
by Ed Hinerman | May 4, 2011 | Dave Ramsey, life insurance, private pilots, term insurance
Dave Ramsey still swears that Zander Insurance is the place to get the best deal on term life insurance. “Use Zander’s online quoting system to search for the most competitive term life insurance plans available”, Dave says. I have a lot of respect...
by Ed Hinerman | May 3, 2011 | conversion, insurance, West Coast Life
After months of debating just how badly West Coast Life was treating its’ long time term insurance customers I was finally told that I wasn’t able to represent them anymore. That was last year. During those months Greg Zabel, some kind of a vice president...
by Ed Hinerman | May 2, 2011 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I had my memory tested today when I had a call from a man from the town I grew up in. He introduced himself as Howard Johnson which didn’t ring a bell and then he threw out a few more names that didn’t ring a bell. Then he mentioned that he used to be the...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 27, 2011 | insurance quotes, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
I’ve never been a fan of Selectquote. Having worked (a long time ago) in a similar on line agency I know for a fact that with quantity (they claim to do 100,000 applications a year) quality suffers serious damage. The agents, if you can really call them that,...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 21, 2011 | final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, senior life insurance
Does that sound like a desperate person looking for final expense life insurance? Well, the companies hope so, but that is really the stance of the companies wanting to bank the policies of seniors willing to overpay for life insurance. It’s certainly not news...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 19, 2011 | A1c, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
We are by no means where I would like to see diabetes life insurance underwriting, but compared to 15 years ago, 10 years ago, even 5 years ago, life is good. I’ve talked a lot about adult onset type 1 diabetes life insurance approvals. The obvious thing going...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 18, 2011 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I suppose if you are a car dealer, car advertisements get under your skin if they don’t tell the truth. I’ve been enormously disappointed over the years in the way mega agency Selectquote advertises term insurance. They are deceptive at best. After an...
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