by Ed Hinerman | Sep 26, 2013 | approval, cancer, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer
I’m working on a prostate cancer life insurance case right now that really begs the question, even though the biopsy showed cancer, 13 years of watchful waiting later, is everyone sure that biopsy was accurate? Was it correct? Since the cancer was only seen in...
by Ed Hinerman | May 13, 2013 | A1c, blood pressure, cancer, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
Not everything that goes on in our medical lives is memorable. If our blood pressure is always in the normal range more than likely we are going to remember our last blood pressure reading. Unless I was deathly ill there is no way that I would remember what my...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 25, 2012 | approval, family history, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, prostate cancer, reconsideration
Life insurance company reconsiderations are thrown about the industry like the success of them is common place and they are for all intents and purposes, a shoe in. The kind of reconsideration I’m talking about is when a smoker becomes a non smoker, someone with...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 2, 2012 | basal cell carcinoma, breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, melanoma, prostate cancer, squamous cell carcinoma
OK. I made it up just to get your attention. No, seriously. Companies are just blowing me away with the offers and approvals they are giving on low stage and grade cancers. In this case I have a company approving a policy at preferred 3 months after a melanoma was...
by Ed Hinerman | May 17, 2012 | heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
When a life insurance agent presents something to a life insurance customer as a fact, customers generally believe it to be a fact and make their future plans accordingly. The believe life insurance agents are honest and knowledgeable and depend on their advice and...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 18, 2012 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
In some cases life insurance underwriting just hangs out and doesn’t change much over the years. That has been fairly true of prostate cancer life insurance since I wrote my first post on the subject back in 2007, until the last few months. What follows is an...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 30, 2012 | Attention Deficit Disorder, bipolar disorder, cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), cpap, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, melanoma, over 50 life insurance
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 30, 2012 | cancer, children's life insurance, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance, mortality, Type 1 diabetes
Being primarily a health risk life insurance agent I get to talk to a lot of people about diseases and problems they didn’t have even just a few years prior. Especially guys have this bombproof thing going on where they truly believe as long as they work hard...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 1, 2012 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
When I was young growing up in Wyoming I remember being talked into a cow tipping trip one evening. I don’t know if this goes on everywhere, but in Wyoming adults really like to jack with kids by having them attempt urban, or in our case, country legends....
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 30, 2012 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I recklessly went out on a limb yesterday spreading a rumor that a major, well know A+ rated life insurance company was jumping on all of the cancer detection and treatment victories of the last several years and have changed their underwriting guidelines and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 29, 2012 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, prostate cancer
I hate jumping into a life insurance topic like this without all the facts but, heck, that’s why they call them rumors. Historically one of the toughest parts of underwriting has been, especially for cancer, the insistence of a one year waiting period post...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 27, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
Prostate cancer, we’ve all heard at one time or another, is something that virtually every man will have at some point in his life. While only one in five or so of us guys will ever be diagnosed with prostate cancer, the other four, according to theory and...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 23, 2011 | cancer, foreign nationals, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I’ve talked before about Pan American Life Insurance and the fact that they will underwrite foreign nationals, mostly from Central and South America and the Caribbean. The only caveat is that they have to travel to Florida to complete the application and exam....
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 1, 2011 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
For a lot of people reaching the big FIVE O, is a moment to ponder. “Ok. I’m halfway to 100. Most people I know who are a hundred are dead.” Maybe being over 50 life insurance should start flashing on the radar. Little blips saying “you...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 7, 2011 | cancer, insurance, life insurance, suicide clause
Ah, the fine print. Somewhere in that life insurance policy must be something written so small and obscurely that it can never be found by a mere human that excludes my family from being paid no matter how I die. All I am doing is paying money to an insurance company...
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