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By Ed Hinerman on March 30, 2012
It’s barely been a month since one of our highest rated carriers announced huge breakthroughs on cancer life insurance underwriting. With some cancers they did away with the one year waiting period post treatment, instead opting for a more aggressive approval suimmediately upon completion of successful treatment. They also opened the door for approvals of ...read more
Posted in Attention Deficit Disorder, bipolar disorder, cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), cpap, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, melanoma, over 50 life insurance | Tagged approval immediately upon completion of successful treatment, best rate class, bladder cancer, calcium scores, cancer, cancer underwriting has been abusive, cardiac risk factor, colon cancer, EBCT, eneterainer life insurance, Gleason grade 8, highest rated carriers, improved survival rates, in situ, insurance, life insurance, low stage and grade, melanoma, more breakthrough news, moving in the right direction, non smoker, papillary carcinoma thyroid, professional athlete life isurance, standard rates or better, surgical treatment only, testicular seminoma
By Ed Hinerman on February 4, 2012
I’ve written a lot over the years about the life insurance underwriting of skin cancer. It’s been a mixed bag of good news and bad news depending on whose study life insurance underwriters wanted to use as their mortality test that month, but overall great strides have been made. My blog is littered with the ...read more
Posted in basal cell carcinoma, cancer, insurance, life insurance, melanoma | Tagged 20-30 basal cell carcinomas, 30 year term insurance, basal cell carcinoma, best rate class, insurance, life insurance, life insurance underwriting of skin cancer, melanoma, mortality risk, multiple basal cell, nevoid basal cell syndrome, preferred rates, regular trips to dermatologist, skin cancer life insurance, standard rate
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
Posted in Anxiety, bipolar disorder, cholesterol, Depression, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance | Tagged approve at preferred plus rates, attorneys, best rate class, better rate class than industry average, blood pressure, CEO's, cholesterol, coping mechanism, insurance, life insurance, life insurance underwriters, minor mood disorder, mood disorder treatment, mood stablizing, mothers dealing with children, physicians, Prozac, rate class reflect mortality risk, stress, treated for ADD, treated for anxiety, treated for bipolar disorder, treated for depression, well controlled, Wellbutrin, Windows 7, Zoloft |
By Ed Hinerman on December 14, 2011
What a crazy year for underwriting life insurance. There have been shifts all over the map from type 1 diabetes to melanoma history, with some of the best news coming for private pilots. It’s been quite a while since we’ve had as many solid players in the hunt for private pilot life insurance. In fact, ...read more
Posted in insurance, life insurance, melanoma, pilot, private pilots, Type 1 diabetes | Tagged best rate class, CFII, fixed wing, flight instructors, great news, helicopter pilot, IFR, insurance, life insurance, PIC hours, pilots, private pilot life insurance, private pilots, student pilots, the new good old days, using helicopter to commute, VFR
By Ed Hinerman on November 17, 2011
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 treatment. Obviously a best case scenario! It was a stage 0, very ...read more
Posted in basal cell carcinoma, cancer, insurance, life insurance, melanoma | Tagged basal cell carcinoma, best rate class, insurance, life insurance, melanocytic nevus, melanoma, mortality assumptions, multiple basal cell carcinomas, nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, skin cancer, skin cancer life insurance, underwriting melanoma
By Ed Hinerman on October 12, 2011
It’s been a long time since most insurance made any kind of fuss over being treated for cholesterol. As long as it was well controlled you could count on best rate class approvals. Now companies have jumped on the cholesterol ratio band wagon and are allowing preferred plus rates with total cholesterol as high as ...read more
Posted in blood pressure, cholesterol, insurance, life insurance | Tagged Banner, best rate class, blood pressure, cholesterol, cholesterol ratio, Genworth, HDL, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, Minnesota Life, over 50 life isurance, over age 50, preferred plus rates, treated cholesterol, treated high blood pressure, United of Omaha
By Ed Hinerman on August 31, 2011
What are there, 300 million plus a few people in the United States now? And the best guess I found is that 10′s of millions have mood disorders to one degree or another. Personally I think that may be an understatement. Tens of millions treated and untreated? 1 in 5? 1 in 4? The truth ...read more
Posted in Anxiety, Depression, insurance, life insurance, physicians life insurance | Tagged Anxiety, attorneys, best rate class, ceo life insurance, CPA, dentists, Depression, insurance, life insurance, med school, mood disorder, mood disorder life insurance, physiciansm, residency, situational, stress |
By Ed Hinerman on August 8, 2011
When i see how some life insurance underwriters treat clients with generalized anxiety, often offering standard rate or worse approvals, I wonder if they’re living in the same country as the rest of us. USA could easily stand for the United States of Anxiety with the roller coaster ride we’ve been on for the last ...read more
Posted in Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance | Tagged attorney, best rate class, CEO, dentist, high pressure job, insurance, life insurance, life insurance underwriters, mood disorders, mortality risk, physician
By Ed Hinerman on August 3, 2011
Just when you have everything comfortably figured out some scientist or doctor or study throws a curve ball at you. Cholesterol was something we all finally got. We knew that if our cholesterol was 200 or under and our LDL, HDL and triglycerides were in the appropriate ranges, well, we were good to eat ice ...read more
Posted in cholesterol, HDL, insurance, life insurance | Tagged bad cholesterol, best rate class, CAD. coronary artery disease, cholesterol, good cholesterol, HDL, insurance, ldl, life insurance, total cholesterol, treated cholesterol, triglycerides
By Ed Hinerman on October 20, 2010
I’ve been specializing in “impaired risk” life insurance cases for the past 13 years and often find that people are confused about the term. They can get their mind wrapped around the idea that they have an impairment, but when you add the word risk the mind kind of automatically adds in the word bad, ...read more
Posted in bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance, mortality risk | Tagged approval, best rate class, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Depression, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, mood disorders, mortality risk, Type 1 diabetes, underwriting
