by Ed Hinerman | Jul 27, 2010 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, insurance, life insurance
Substance abuse treatment and life insurance underwriting are a delicate dance that if done correctly can be both successful in approval and reasonable rates. Having said that, like any impairment, there are parameters that have to be met. Whether self admitted,...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 10, 2008 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, foreign travel, heart attack, heart disease, obesity
They’re the rates you see advertised all the time and they are definitely the rates that everyone would like to be paying for their life insurance coverage. But do you qualify? First let’s dispel with a few old myths. Your age and the amount of insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 22, 2007 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, cancer, DUI, insurance, life insurance, liver functions
Not too long ago I discussed life insurance exam labs results. I mentioned that the tests were not always tests that would lead to a diagnosis of a specific problem, but were tests that often exposed the tip of the iceberg, where a more serious problem might lie...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 7, 2007 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
I mentioned in a post the other day that one of my shortcomings is I have a very generalized philosophy that if a little bit of something is good for me, a lot of it should be great for me. If, whatever it is, can be used in monstrous quantities, who’s to say I...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 21, 2007 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, Depression, DUI, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
Clients are always surprised that their alcohol use can be an underwriting issue. Whether a person has been through alcohol treatment, has had a DUI, or just consumes higher than average amounts of alcohol, they present an underwriting challenge on more than one...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 7, 2007 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, cancer, Depression, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, estate taxes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, private pilots
A Simon and Garfunkel song with the line, “my lack of education hasn’t hurt me none”. Well that may be just fine for most life insurance agents, but the fact that it hasn’t “hurt them none” isn’t really the point. How many...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 1, 2007 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, breast cancer, cancer, guaranteed issue life insurance, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, Type 2 diabetes
I think I’ve mentioned before that there is a real propensity in the life insurance business for agents to be so protective of a potential sale that they will actually tell a customer they are uninsurable, rather than admit they are the wrong agent for the job....
by Ed Hinerman | May 30, 2007 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
Whether it is youthful indiscretion or taking the wrong route in dealing with with real life grown up issues, alcohol and drug abuse are no stranger to anyone. If we haven’t been there ourselves, we certainly know of someone who has. Some never get past it....
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