by Ed Hinerman | Apr 24, 2015 | application process, approval, decline, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! A rolling stone gathers no moss! A stitch in time saves nine??? Remember me? The foolish life insurance agent who yelled wolf in HIV clothing last year leaving a lot of people ticked at me when the underwriters...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 26, 2014 | decline, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I ended my last post with a review of the criteria I was given and the following concerning the application I had submitted to a major life insurance company. 1. HIV+ diagnosis was made 3 or more years prior to application. 2. Client has received Anti-retroviral...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 21, 2014 | application process, approval, customer service, decline, HIV life insurance, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
While I don’t imagine that life insurance agents are any worse than the general population, my God what is happening to our country when money has become more important than doing the right thing? There is this presumptuous attitude that if money can’t be...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 6, 2014 | Depression, diabetes, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, Type 1 diabetes
And when I answer the phone, and it’s me who answers it, I truly want to know just that. How can I help you? If you found me you probably have already experienced life insurance agents who couldn’t help you or wouldn’t help you. You may have suffered...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 23, 2014 | HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance claim
I was running life insurance quotes for a client who is HIV positive yesterday. We went through all the questions about when he was diagnosed, the RNA and CD4 levels when he was diagnosed and the fact that his viral load has been undetectable since starting on...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 5, 2013 | HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Feeling a little blindsided right now. I tread very carefully when it comes to any dramatic change in underwriting and as I’ve outlined in numerous posts, just recently two companies approached me saying that they were willing to underwrite HIV positive up to...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 25, 2013 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, decline, Depression, HIV life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer
With all the great things happening on so many fronts I thought it prudent to bring things up to date on mood disorder life insurance and specifically the continued success we are having placing well controlled bipolar disorder. Even with major breakthroughs in life...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 7, 2013 | HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
When you do a search for life insurance for HIV positive on Google you would have to believe that all that is still available is what has always been available, final expense guaranteed issue life and burial guaranteed issue life. These are small (less than $50,000)...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 4, 2013 | approval, decline, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I’ve said often enough to be considered redundant beyond reproach that a decline for life insurance is a good place to start. The thing about a decline is it flushes out all of the details that might have simply not been understood or forgotten by the client and...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 29, 2013 | HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer, PSA
Prostate cancer has been one of the easier cancers for life insurance underwriting for a long time, but the criteria for those low stage and grade cases has been expanded to areas not seen before. In recent weeks I’ve been all over this forum about breakthroughs...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 28, 2013 | guaranteed issue life insurance, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance for gay couples, term insurance, universal life
Just a month ago there was only one step to getting life insurance if you were HIV positive. You filled out an application for guaranteed issue life insurance and sent in money, lots of money. Guaranteed issue whole life insurance was your only choice and even though...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 15, 2013 | approval, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, executives, guaranteed issue life insurance, HIV life insurance, HIV Positive, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
Some nut case has been all over the internet search engines claiming a phenomenal life insurance underwriting breakthrough that will allow a large number of HIV positive people to get traditional life insurance up to $1 million. Since HIV became an issue in the...
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