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By Ed Hinerman on November 26, 2012
Let me start out by saying that traditional life insurance underwriting doesn’t reward treatment of health issues. That is as in DOES NOT reward. There are still life insurance companies out there that will whack a client like a golf ball for taking medication to control high blood pressure. It may only be one rate ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on June 18, 2012
Some years ago I had a client who really hit on a hot button for professionals like her as a physician and others who wore hats from CEO’s to attorneys, dentists and even psychiatrists. In the original case it had to do with a physician who had taken an anti anxiety drug for a fairly ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on May 16, 2012
I am about to go off on Selectquote again but let me show you the new kinder, gentler side of my opinionated self. Selectquote handles, from what I’ve heard, about 100,000 applications a year. They’ve been the king of the hill for quite a while so that tells me they probably aren’t messing up every ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on March 27, 2012
Let me preface this by saying that I take Prozac for situational depression. The situation doesn’t exist anymore but the feelings were so bad that I continue to take the Prozac. I don’t want to quit and find out that the horrible way I felt was just coincidental to the situation that I blamed it ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on February 23, 2012
The way 99.9% of life insurance companies treat people with bipolar disorder drives me nuts. I’m not talking about an insurance company that fully underwrites an application and finds out something really sketchy in a person’s history. What slays me is agents that won’t even let you go beyond your admission of bipolar disorder without ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on February 20, 2012
SAVE 70% ON LIFE INSURANCE. How often have we seen that little advertising flower bloom on our computer screens. I’ve explained in the past that there really isn’t any magic to that. The spread between the best priced life insurance companies and the worst is all of that if not more. So there are thousands ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on February 16, 2012
If it isn’t crystal clear by now, it should be. People applying for life insurance with a current or past history of well controlled depression, anxiety, ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder and other mood disorders are being abusively rated or declined by most life insurance companies. My contention is , in spite of the statistics, is ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on January 26, 2012
What a cold, cruel world we live in. Most of the time I am not surprised when someone calls because they they have been approved at a standard rate, sometimes a little worse for things like ADD, ADHD, mild anxiety or depression. A few days ago I got a call from someone who had been ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on January 19, 2012
As I come to grips with the fact that I am going to have to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7 and from Outlook Express to Outlook, I am a bit stressed. To bring you up to speed on the kind of stress I am going through, I wrote this post this morning. Because ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on January 7, 2012
I’ve talked in the past about how some companies will come on like they want to be the industry leader in a niche, only to fall of the radar completely a year or two later. The supposition on my part is that they either hired a new chief underwriter who put a squash on the ...read more
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