Author Archives: Jimmy Petersen

The Bread and Butter

Petersen International is a multi-generational insurance corporation that boasts a sizable product portfolio, providing a diverse range of financial services from disability insurances and international medical programs to specialty-market life and accident products as well as more obscure coverage like kidnap and ransom insurance.  In the last several years, the specialty-market buzz has been focused […]

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The Failure to Survive Product Line

Key Person FTS Failure to Survive insurance is a simplified-issue business-focused term product requiring no exams or labs that can be underwritten and issued in a matter of days.  With liberal underwriting standards and unique flexibility, the Key Person FTS coverage provides a flat key person benefit, and can accommodate impaired-risk cases that would typically […]

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K&R

In the insurance industry, K&R is short for Kidnap & Ransom.  That certainly conjures some scary thoughts.  I would rather worry about my home or property being damaged by a fire or an earthquake.  I don’t want to think about my family members, friends or colleagues being held against their will in some dark room […]

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DI Case Study: The Tiered-Benefit Structure

Disability insurance is an often overlooked, undervalued and misrepresented financial safeguard.  Yet, it the greatest resource an income-earner has in protecting one’s economic freedom against the very real threat of not being physically able to make a living due to a short or long-term debilitating illness or injury.  Disability insurance is essential to every working […]

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Travel Medical Insurance

Although the stark realities and dangers of the new “normal” brought about by the onslaught of the Coronavirus are ever present, much of the world has reopened to foreign travel and tourism.  And with the summer months upon us, this marks a typically busy time for the international travel industry.  Family vacations, study-abroad programs, high […]

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