by Ed Hinerman | Jul 20, 2023 | life insurance, melanoma, skin cancer
original post 2/28/14 updated 7/2023 As I write about life insurance policies for low stage melanoma, I know you folks in the northeast are not thinking about skin cancer right now. You are likely focused on the never ending thunderstorms, flooding and Canadian...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 28, 2012 | basal cell carcinoma, cancer, decline, insurance, life insurance, melanoma
I got a call yesterday from a woman who had just been declined for a new life insurance because she had two melanomas in the last 11 years. After the second melanoma she decided she was a little more mortal than she had originally figured and wanted to increase her...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 17, 2011 | basal cell carcinoma, cancer, insurance, life insurance, melanoma
Talk about a health issue that’s been around the block several times and every time something new pops up. Skin cancer is it! We’ve seen great strides in underwriting melanoma with a recent approval at standard plus rates just four months out from...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 11, 2011 | basal cell carcinoma, insurance, life insurance, melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma
What a summer, huh? I heard on the news the other day that somewhere in Oklahoma had set a new all time record high for any state over a full month. We’re talking hotter than Arizona!! I’m pretty blessed to live at 7000′ in Colorado where yesterday...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 23, 2011 | basal cell carcinoma, insurance, life insurance, melanoma
I love to golf. There are very few things that carry that same feeling as a well hit drive or sinking a long putt (or for me not missing a short one), but when we can get a case approved at better than standard rates for someone with a history of melanoma, well,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 5, 2011 | decline, insurance, life insurance
I’ve always said that a life insurance decline is really not a bad place to start. Obviously it’s more fun to get approved at the best rate the first time around, but most of my clients come to me because they have health issues. They call or email because...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 15, 2010 | basal cell carcinoma, cancer, insurance, life insurance
Some years ago the life insurance underwriting world went into a tizzy because a study had come out insinuating that a person who had multiple basal cell carcinomas, a truly non lethal skin cancer, had a higher chance of having a melanoma, a truly lethal form of skin...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 13, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
We’ve covered a lot in the past on the life insurance underwriting of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is one of those good news/bad news events in the cancer world. Prostate cancer is the second most prevalent cancer among men, surpassed only by skin cancer. It...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 12, 2009 | insurance, life insurance, melanoma
The most common type of cancer among men and women is skin cancer. By far the majority of those cases are rarely life threatening types like basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma. The least common of the three is the most feared and has one of the highest...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 23, 2009 | basal cell carcinoma, insurance, life insurance, melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma
There is skin cancer, the most common cancer in the United States with over one million cases annually. Not to trivialize, but most of those cases are basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma and are generally easily and successfully treated. It is the third in the trio...
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