by Ed Hinerman | Sep 21, 2009 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
Back in mid July I started working on a life insurance case for a young man with type 1 diabetes. He had already discovered how easy it is to find a company to decline him, but the picture he painted was not one that led to a logical decline. He had the same strikes...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 21, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, mortality risk
I have often talked about the need, when you have health issues or a health history, to do your homework and make sure you find an independent life insurance agent who understands your health challenge and also understands what companies to go to and what companies to...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 6, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
There is a point that us old guys reach where no matter how healthy we improve our mortality risk in the next year we just aren’t going to be able to get life insurance cheaper than we can today. I just had this delicate conversation with a 61 year old man who...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 9, 2009 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
I was asked by my office manager this morning if bipolar disorder/manic depressive disorder was more prevalent in people around her age, in her 30’s, than people my age, in my 50’s, because the majority of people who react to our advertising and blogs are...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 2, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, life settlements
I’ve never minced words about what a horrible idea life settlements are. A life settlement is when you sell the ownership of a life insurance policy on yourself for some amount of money, and they are then the owner and beneficiary when you die. Personally my...
by Ed Hinerman | May 18, 2009 | asthma, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, obesity, stroke, Type 2 diabetes
Guilty as charged. I am one of those recovering saltaholics that grabs the salt shaker and tops off a meal before I’ve even taken a bite to see if it needs it. I love salt and although I am getting better about at least giving something a taste first, the truth...
by Ed Hinerman | May 13, 2009 | cancer, death benefit, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, prayer
If you only had a crystal ball, right? If you knew when you were going to die you could put off buying life insurance right up to the last moment, or if you knew you would outlive the need for life insurance you could just not buy at all. Well, unless you are...
by Ed Hinerman | May 13, 2009 | family history, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, smoking
If anyone out there is suffering from the illusion that your medical records are accurate, let me clue you in. The chance that your records contain substantive errors is about 75%. The chance that your records are error free is within the margin of error for 0%....
by Ed Hinerman | May 12, 2009 | basal cell carcinoma, cancer, cholesterol, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk
Very few weeks slip by that I don’t take the opportunity to drive home the life insurance consequences of not following through with a doctor’s recommendation for a test or a follow up visit. These may seem like small things, but in the world of...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 29, 2009 | cancer, cholesterol, foreign travel, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, prostate cancer
When I got my briefs in a bunch earlier this year in a little spat with ING Reliastar, on the surface it would seem that we were arguing semantics. Just underneath the surface is a gray area about half the size of the universe where life insurance companies seem to...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 27, 2009 | beneficiary, conversion, estate taxes, foreign travel, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, private pilots, scuba diving, suicide clause
I did a series of posts last year on life insurance policies and have referred back to those posts on several occasions when explaining some specific clauses and options such as the suicide clause and incontestability clause and the conversion option. Now I would like...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 7, 2009 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk
If it wasn’t such a great success story I would probably just quit talking about it, but we have already been able to help more people with bipolar disorder in the first quarter of this year than we did all last year. The word is getting out. A client who...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 30, 2009 | asthma, bipolar, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, cancer, decline, diabetes, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, prostate cancer, Type 2 diabetes
It’s just a bad feeling when a life insurance company declines to offer you coverage. They don’t want to accept the mortality risk!! Do they think you’re dying? Is there something your doctor isn’t telling you? Will you ever be able to get life...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 23, 2009 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, Lincoln National, mortality, mortality risk, prostate cancer
With life insurance companies there has always been something of a line in the sand when underwriting prostate cancer history. That line has hung on the grade of the cancer as determined by the Gleason score. I’ve often described the Gleason score grading system...
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
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