Impaired-Risk Disability Insurance
According to World Health Organization estimates, there are over 30,000 human diseases known to modern medicine. Of those classified and analyzed conditions, roughly two-thirds have no known effective treatment. Yet, we have come a long way from the archaic days of visits to the medieval barber for blood-lettings or shock therapies to improve ailments of the twentieth century. Medicines have evolved, and treatment methods have as equally improved to great effect on the human race. People are living longer than ever. But as immune systems and lifestyles evolve over the generations, certain afflictions blossom and create widespread problems that affect populations.
Currently, governments the world over are trying to quell the devastating health and socioeconomic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. But there are other diseases that have been flourishing in America that bring about longer term concerns.
Because of our generally sedentary, fast food lifestyles, morbid obesity has become a serious problem in the United States. Poor weight control ultimately leads to poor overall health. As underwriters of life and disability insurances, every year we are witnessing unprecedented increases in applicants with disproportionate body mass indexes, coronary artery disease, type II diabetes, vascular disease and sleep apnea, most of which are attributed to diet and lifestyle missteps.
In the last 10 years, we have also seen a dramatic rise in the amount of patient prescriptions for anxiety and mood disorders as well as rehabilitation stints for drug and alcohol dependence.
These varying ailments and conditions have become common among disability insurance prospects and probably among your clients as well. Unfortunately, the standard, traditional disability market doesn’t provide many solutions for impaired-risk cases. Several secondary carriers rely on offerings of graduated or graded-benefit programs with heavy benefit and term limitations, but Petersen International is the true expert on substandard and impaired-risk underwriting in the U.S.
For almost 40 years, we have worked alongside veteran actuaries and underwriters of the U.S. and European disability markets as well as a number of prominent American physicians to formulate the best and most progressive underwriting methodologies in the nation. We are able to provide monthly and lump sum “own occupation” disability benefits to many applicants who have been previously declined by traditional DI companies.
The secret is in the many decades of experience of our in-house underwriters and medical directors as well as the flexibility of our term disability products. Petersen International’s underwriting authority is second to none in the industry and allows for the calculated taking of risk that most carriers won’t accept.
If your disability or life insurance clients have health concerns that are finding them uninsurable with your usual carriers, contact Petersen International immediately. We have the experience, adaptability and proven product lines to financially protect your clientele.