Start with your situation

These guides cover the medical histories, occupations, and underwriting issues that most often affect life insurance approval and pricing.

Pre-existing conditions

How underwriters evaluate medical history, stability, records, and carrier fit when health issues make coverage harder to place.

Diabetes

What A1C, age of diagnosis, medication, complications, and control history can mean for approval and rates.

Cancer history

How cancer type, staging, treatment, remission period, and follow-up records affect underwriting options.

Epilepsy

How seizure type, frequency, medication control, driving status, and medical follow-up are usually reviewed.

Kidney disease

What carriers look for in kidney function, diagnosis, treatment history, and overall stability.

Lupus

How severity, organ involvement, medication, flare history, and specialist records can influence offers.

TIA and stroke history

How time since event, cause, recovery, medications, and vascular risk factors affect underwriting.

Pilots

How aviation type, hours, ratings, routes, and policy aviation exclusions can affect life insurance options.

Before you apply

Special-risk applications are often won or lost before the application is submitted. Clean records, the right carrier, and a clear explanation of your history can prevent unnecessary declines or inflated offers.

Why work with Special Risk Term?

Mike Raines works directly with applicants who have been declined, rated, postponed, or told coverage would be too expensive. The goal is to match the case with carriers that regularly underwrite that specific risk instead of sending the same application everywhere.

That matters most when your health history, job, hobby, or prior application result needs context before an underwriter sees it.





Compare rates from top insurance companies

  • Banner Life
  • American National
  • Prudential
  • AIG
  • Nationwide
  • Voya
  • Lincoln
  • Transamerica
  • Fidelity Life

As an independent life agent I represent hundreds of companies, and have the knowledge of which carriers will consider a particular situation. I can provide you with the lowest rates available in the marketplace. Through my many years of developing relationships with insurance carriers I personally negotiate on your behalf. This saves you time and money. No more phone calls to multiple agents or filling out forms online. No huge Internet quoting company can offer you this type of personal service. If you have been turned down for coverage, rated for coverage, or just want to find out if coverage is reasonably priced then contact me and I will do the legwork for you. You will speak directly to me at 678-207-8160 or e-mail me at or mike@specialriskterm.com

Customer Reviews

I could not be happier working with Mike Raines to get life insurance coverage for myself after having been declined for health reasons by my employer. My wife and I just had a son and it had become more imperative than ever that my family be protected if I were to pass away. The health screening appointment was conducted at my home around my schedule, which was very convenient. It was clear to me that Mike went above and beyond to make sure the underwriter fully understood my situation, going to bat for me so that I would not be declined again. I am a very happy customer.

- Daniel S. from Seaside, CA.
Mike,
All I can say is thank you, thank you, and thank you some more!  I will definitely pass your name along to others because you’ve done what other could not do.  You also stuck with me until the entire time until my getting life insurance was completed.
I wanted to leave my sons something…..and because of you I am now able to so.  I appreciate your help and your teams help!
- April B. Smyrna, Ga.

I tried several places before I came across Mike’s website. The insurance at these other places was either very expensive, or the company wouldn’t cover me because of my health history. Mike was able to find me a reasonably priced policy with a major insurer. He did a great job locating a policy that works well for me.

- Jeff from Hermon, ME.

Two Thumbs Up for Mike at Special Risk Term

- Yaniv from Troy, MO.