by Ed Hinerman | Sep 23, 2013 | Attention Deficit Disorder, bipolar disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval
I am so glad that a life insurance company came clean with me this last week and admitted that, yes, they had in fact changed their stance on underwriting of bipolar disorder life insurance and other mood disorders as well. They admitted that a case that they had...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 28, 2013 | insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, pilot, private pilots
With nearly a quarter of my clients being commercial and private pilots I thought I had worked my way through all of the obvious mistakes in pilot life insurance underwriting, but I missed one this week. In the end no harm, no foul as I can move it to another company...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 25, 2013 | Active Duty Military Life Insurance, application process, family history, insurance, insurance quotes, life insurance, life insurance approval, Met Life, military
Me pass up an opportunity to question a life insurance company stance at the very core of its’ self proclaimed heart? Not on your life or over my dead body. USAA and MetLife are the self proclaimed most patriotic life insurance companies in the country. They...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 26, 2012 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, gastric bypass, insurance, life insurance, life insurance approval, mortality, mortality risk, obesity
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 6, 2012 | approval, bipolar, bipolar disorder, decline, executives, impaired risk life insurance, insurance, life insurance
I am more amazed every day at the huge misconception there seems to be in our country about the face of bipolar disorder and what it most certainly means when it comes to trying to be approved for life insurance. To give you a sense where most life insurance companies...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 30, 2011 | accidental death, civilian contractors, Civilian War Zone Coverage, insurance, life insurance
Is accidental death insurance worth it? Your average run of the mill accidental death policy, or for that matter an accidental death rider on a life insurance policy is, well, not a very good value. The reason those policies are dirt cheap is that the mortality risk...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 18, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, military, police
I don’t think you would find a life insurance underwriter that would argue that the mortality risk for police life insurance or firefighter life insurance is higher than the average person on the street. Something about carrying guns and having to use them,...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 1, 2011 | blood pressure, bypass surgery, cancer, insurance, life insurance
Allow me one more time to bemoan the good old days when US Financial Life Insurance was still roaming the earth. They doled out good news in life insurance underwriting in their short life span than any other company around. It was called clinical underwriting. Just...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 8, 2011 | Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 4, 2011 | bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
If you have bipolar disorder and have applied for life insurance then you might assume that life insurance underwriting of bipolar disorder is very straightforward. You apply. You tell them you have bipolar disorder. You get declined. With most companies it really is...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 8, 2010 | American Diabetes Association, children's life insurance, diabetes, insurance, life insurance
Those who follow my blog have seen this battle going on for years. I will admit that the steady stream of “no ways” that I have received occasionally dampens my enthusiasm, but an email I received this morning has prompted a resurgence in my efforts. The...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 9, 2010 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life
When all of the sub prime mortgages started going south life as we knew it changed, big time. The American dream became the good old days in just a matter of months. I wonder if someone had shouted loud enough or provided disclaimers scary enough before the loans if...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 3, 2010 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
Let’s just cut to the chase on this subject. Men who smoke very often don’t carry life insurance because smokers have to pay, in general, 3-4 times more than a non smoker of comparable health. They have decided that the extra premium means life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 20, 2010 | bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance, mortality risk
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...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 13, 2010 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
I’ve often talked about mortality risk being the basis for life insurance underwriting, but looking back I’ve never really explained what that means in the context of a “normal” lifespan. We all hear that Americans are living longer than ever,...
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