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- How to obtain life insurance when you have heart disease
- Date posted: August 1st, 2011 10:10 AM
- A history of heart disease won’t necessarily flatline your chances of obtaining life insurance at reasonable rates, insurance experts say, provided you have the condition under control and you’re following doctor’s orders.
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- Category: Life Insurance, Top Headlines, Videos
- Tags: advice, affordable premiums, cost, health, healthcare, heart disease, heart health, insurability, life insurance, Life insurance shopping, pre-existing medical condition, preferred rates, risks, statistics, Tips
- Living Dangerously? There’s life insurance for that
- Date posted: February 21st, 2011 2:02 PM
- Suppose you’re a generally healthy person with a weekend habit of jumping out of helicopters to ski down mountains in the middle of the French Alps? What if you like to ascend ice formations in a sport called ice climbing, or barrel down a twisting paved road while lying on wheeled board? Full Story »
- Category: Articles Library, Life Insurance, Videos
- Tags: advice, dangerous jobs, extreme sports, fraud, hazards, higher premiums, hobbies, impaired risk, Insurance, life insurance, lying, mortality, National Association of INdependent Life Brokerage Agencies, OSHA, risks, State Farm Insurance, Top 10, underwriting, United States Department of Labor
- Can childhood obesity impact life insurance rates in the future?
- Date posted: February 10th, 2011 3:03 PM
- Obesity among America’s youth is a growing epidemic with long-term ramifications for both the health and financial futures of those affected.
An estimated 17 percent of children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 are considered obese, according to the 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the last year for which statistics are available. That is about triple the rate from just one generation ago.
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- Category: Featured Articles, Life Insurance, Videos
- Tags: bariatric procedure, body mass index, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity, classification, diabetes, diet, exercise, expert advice, financial health, health, healthy lifestyle, high cost, life insurance, long-term effects, medication, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, physical health, premiums, risks, sickness, statistics, The Hartford, underwriting
- Thirdhand smoke also a danger, new study finds
- Date posted: January 14th, 2011 11:11 AM
- Thirdhand smoke, like first and secondhand smoke, may also be a possible cause of asthma and lung cancer, a new study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology has found.Full Story »
- Category: Articles Library, Life Insurance, Videos
- Tags: absorption, asthma, cigarettes, Environmental Science and Technology journal, health insurance, health precautions, illness, life insurance, lung cancer, risks, smoking ban, thirdhand smoke, tobacco, tobacco residue, WebMD
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