by Ed Hinerman | Sep 25, 2012 | approval, family history, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer, reconsideration
Life insurance company reconsiderations are thrown about the industry like the success of them is common place and they are for all intents and purposes, a shoe in. The kind of reconsideration I’m talking about is when a smoker becomes a non smoker, someone with...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 30, 2012 | Attention Deficit Disorder, bipolar disorder, cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), cpap, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, melanoma, over 50 life insurance
It’s barely been a month since one of our highest rated carriers announced huge breakthroughs on cancer life insurance underwriting. With some cancers they did away with the one year waiting period post treatment, instead opting for a more aggressive approval...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 5, 2012 | accelerated death benefit, conversion, insurance, lapse, life insurance, reinstatement
A lot has changed over the past 30 some years in life insurance. Products have been invented and disposed of. Bells and whistles have been implemented and some of them have been disposed of. With a few notable exceptions though, the basic term life insurance policy...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 3, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
Let’s just cut to the chase on this subject. Men who smoke very often don’t carry life insurance because smokers have to pay, in general, 3-4 times more than a non smoker of comparable health. They have decided that the extra premium means life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 5, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk
If there is a common thread through the whole life insurance application/underwriting experience, it’s that those applying tend to underplay their mortality while feeling like underwriters really overplay the whole mortality thing. Life insurance pricing and...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 26, 2010 | heart disease, insurance, life insurance
I’m always on the hunt for innovative underwriting. I like to find those nuggets when a company finally has an “aha” moment and decides that, for instance, maybe there’s some slack that can be applied to family history without risking the risk...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 17, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve been asked, when a client is facing an increased life insurance rate due to some health issue, why the insurance company doesn’t take into account all the positive things they have going on in their...
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