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 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 19, 2009 | cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
Big news yesterday. Two studies that have been going on over the last 10 years threw a lot of doubt as to the value of the PSA (prostate specific antigen) test as it pertains to prostate cancer. Are the recommended annual tests going to go by the wayside and what...
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 | Nov 11, 2008 | blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
As soon as you tell someone that they don’t qualify for the best rates available, stand back, because the knee jerk reaction is to unload on you with something akin to the intelligent response, “So, they think I’m about to die of a heart attack, or...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 6, 2008 | cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
Assuming survival, which is a pretty good bet with prostate cancer, a life insurance underwriter uses a set of criteria to evaluate the mortality risk of any given cancer survivor. It is this assessed risk that is translated into a rate per thousand dollars worth of...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 4, 2008 | cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
Guys, we’ve talked about this before, an area where women don’t even have to struggle at all to make us look like morons. Unfortunately far too many men find out the value of an annual physical, a regular checkup, when they discover that they have a...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 20, 2008 | cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
Because of the exceptionally high success rate in treatment of prostate cancer, it stands out as ultimately one of the most insurable cancer histories from a life insurance underwriting view. Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among men, but...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 18, 2008 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I just received the pathology report that I mentioned in yesterday’s post from the lump removed last week from my Mom’s breast. As I mentioned, with this type of cancer this report is step one of two, with a biopsy of one or more lymph nodes next week...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 12, 2008 | breast cancer, cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
Last year my father, age 85, did battle with bladder cancer. He was blessed with great doctors and literally hundreds of people praying for him. Today you wouldn’t even know that he had been through a fight with a high grade, high stage cancer that takes more...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 11, 2008 | cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), decline, diabetes, hepatitis, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
When you apply for life insurance it is not a given that you will get what you want or what you believe you deserve. By far the majority of policies are approved with no surprises. A smaller percentage are approved but at a different rate. And a small percentage are...
by Ed Hinerman | May 23, 2008 | basal cell carcinoma, cancer, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, melanoma, prostate cancer, PSA
Guys! The boogie man isn’t under the bed, but rather right below our belly buttons, just about a finger’s length up our rear ends. I’m talking about the prostate gland and the fact that 1 in 6 men will get prostate cancer in their life time. Prostate...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 22, 2008 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
I caught the title of an article on prostate cancer out of the corner of my eye today and immediately drew the wrong conclusion. The article, “Exercise may lead to faster prostate tumor growth” drew an immediate reaction from me since I exercise daily. I...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 12, 2008 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
The PSA, prostate specific antigen, test has been the standard for decades for determining the chances of a man having prostate cancer and the need for further diagnostic testing through a needle biopsy. The problem that has become apparent in the medical and life...
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