Author Archives: Jimmy Petersen

Disability Insurance Awareness Month Planning Panel

The following are questions posed to Thomas Petersen (Vice President of Petersen International Underwriters) by Broker World Magazine in anticipation of Disability Insurance Awareness Month which begins today. Broker World:  What special initiatives is your company undertaking to take advantage of Disability Insurance Awareness Month?  What do you do to build on your DIAM momentum […]

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Loss of License Insurance: DI for Professional Pilots

As important as life insurance is to professional aviators, disability income protection is absolutely imperative.  Whether a pilot flies for a commercial outfit, is self-employed as a crop duster or does heavy-lift work in a helicopter, the reality of disablement exists among every class of aviator.  Due to accident or illness, there is always an […]

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Sales Ideas to Propel Your DI Practice to the Top

I doubt that many of you reading this got your start in the world of financial services through disability insurance (DI). Income protection, as some of us appreciatively call it, is an often overlooked, undervalued sector of the greater life and health insurance industry. Most agents and advisors have been naturally polarized by our industry, […]

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Take Advantage of the Hottest Commodity in High-Limit Disability

If you are an insurance agent and you have clients who are physicians or surgeons of any kind Petersen International will help you turn your regular individual DI case opportunities into easily-managed, high-limit excess group disability policies. Those dependable doctor clients of yours have partners and associates who make up physician groups and surgery centers […]

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Minimizing Corporate Risk with Buy/Sell Disability Insurance

Although it feels to some of us that we are, by necessity or not, going to work for the rest of our lives, most Americans will retire by the age of 70.  Now that number is definitely increasing due to a multitude of factors (improvement in healthcare, increased longevity, lack of retirement planning confidence, etc.)  […]

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A Word of Caution

Today is the first day of spring, marking the beginning of a busy time for the international travel industry.  Spring Break, family vacations, study-abroad programs, high school/college trips, honeymoons and humanitarian missions are but a few of the reasons Americans will be traveling overseas at this time of year.  Unbeknownst to many, their trusted ACA-compliant […]

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