by Ed Hinerman | Apr 24, 2021 | breast cancer, insurance, life insurance
I wrote this post about 10 years ago. That was just a few years after my mother went through diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer and it gave me a whole new awareness of the aspects like stage and grade and treatment options. I hope updating the information (and...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 10, 2019 | cancer, impaired risk life insurance, life insurance
I am currently working with a client who was declined by a few other companies and apparently told that with a recent history of breast cancer life insurance approvals just weren’t in the cards. This woman was, for some reason, told by the life insurance agent...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 1, 2016 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, melanoma, prostate cancer
Let me start by saying that I’ve got good news and other news when it comes to life insurance underwriting of cancers, whether something simple like early stage and grade melanoma or early stage insitu breast cancer to later stage bladder cancer or colon cancer...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 13, 2016 | approval, breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer
It’s no secret that with most types of cancer life insurance can be something of a hassle, if not impossible, to get even when a large amount of time has passed. When I say most things are sort of tilted in favor of that statement just because there are so many...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 26, 2016 | ADHD, Anxiety, approval, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, business life insurance, CEO life insurance, compliance, decline, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, physicians life insurance
Now there’s a calming thought. You’re still alive, traumatized from head to toe from a car to moose gathering on the highways of Maine and you’ve made it to the hospital. The doctor and nurse start working and you relax as you know that you are with...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 15, 2015 | application process, approval, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, cancer, decline, doctor's recommendation, family history, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I am currently shopping for life insurance for a 50 year old nurse who had breast cancer in 2001. She had a lumpectomy and there was “a very small amount of cancer cells” found in one of the sentinel lymph nodes checked. Because of the lymph node she was...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 24, 2015 | approval, breast cancer, cancer, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, John Hancock, life insurance, life insurance approval, life insurance underwriting, melanoma, prostate cancer, PSA
No, not the real man. He was by all reports a real stand up guy, but unfortunately there isn’t a requirement when a company uses your name that they have to portray the same characteristics. A few years back John Hancock Life Insurance made some bold, but well...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 7, 2011 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance
Whenever we talk about breast cancer life insurance the real meat of the discussion revolves around stage and grade. Just like the five year survival rate, life insurance for breast cancer survivors is a far better deal with an early stage and low grade. We know that...
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