Comprehensive Disability Income Insurance
Custom designed income protection for your unique needs!
Custom designed income protection for your unique needs!
Are you prepared if it happens to you?
If you’re like most Americans, you don’t have disability insurance, or you only have employer paid group insurance. Do you have enough emergency savings to last more than 34 months? That's the average duration of a disability claim. If you become disabled, will you be ready? Or will you and your loved ones face serious financial hardship, possibly foreclosure, eviction, repossession, and even bankruptcy?
Good news! I can help you protect your paycheck!
A primary cause of car repossession is loss of income due to sickness or injury.
One of the largest causes of eviction is loss of income due to sickness or injury.
The number one cause of home foreclosure is loss of income due to sickness or injury.
Everyone needs an emergency fund to pay for a short-term loss of income. Paid sick leave, PTO, and paid vacation time can be used to bridge gaps when you can't work because you're sick or injured.
Employer-paid group disability generally does not replace all of your income. The most common benefit plan replaces 66% of income, up to a $5,000 per month cap. That benefit is taxable, so actual after-tax replacement is less than half your gross income. Can you handle a 50% cut in your pay when you get sick or hurt?
You can protect your employer-paid group Long Term Disability income gap during a period of disability with an individual disability income insurance policy.
My name is Brent D. Gardner. I believe that everyone that works for a paycheck needs affordable disability income insurance because this is the single largest financial risk everyone faces during their working years. Let me do the analysis to figure out what plan is the best protection for your situation. I can find a plan to fit every budget.
Not all disability income insurance plans are the same. The contractual language varies. The definition of disability of one policy will pay a claim while a policy with a different definition of disability might not. I can help you navigate to the best choice for your occupation.
I started my insurance career in March of 1991 as a College Agent and then a Career Agent with a large mid-western mutual life insurance company. In January of 1997, I started Life Solutions, an independent insurance brokerage agency, taking over a family-built book of business that dates back to 1922, including servicing policies issued in the 1890s.
I've taught courses on insurance and financial planning through The American College, where I earned financial planning's highest standard, the Chartered Financial Consultant designation, and the life insurance industry's ultimate standard, the Chartered Life Underwriter designation. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Kansas State University.
I've served multiple terms on the Board of Directors for the Society of Financial Service Professionals, been an Ambassador for the Chamber of Commerce, and volunteered for the American Heart Association, The Ronald McDonald House, The American Cancer Society, and the National Association of Health Underwriters.
This is an insurance policy that pays you a tax-free monthly income when you are unable to work due to sickness or injury.
This coverage pays benefits to reimburse business owners for rents, utilities, salaries of employees, and other business expenses so that your business stays open while you recover from a disability.
This coverage is used to fund a Buy/Sell Agreement. It protects business partners, shareholders of a corporation, or members of an Limited Liability Company, when a partner, shareholder, or member becomes disabled.
Employer groups with as few as 3 people can obtain individual disability income insurance on a guaranteed issue basis.
I have companies that offer a Simplified Issue program that waives some of the underwriting requirements, making it much easier to apply for coverage.
If your income cannot be adequately protected by a combination of employer-paid group Long Term Disability and Individual Disability Income insurance, then I can help you secure excess coverage with high limits of $100,000 per month (or more), with lump sum payouts for total disability as high as $100,000,000. Coverage for professional athletes and entertainers are available.
I have access to multiple premium discount programs:
Please reach out if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Guaranteed Renewable means that a policy is guaranteed to be renewable, usually to a certain age, such as 65 or 70. Premiums may be increased in the future by the insurance company.
Non-Cancelable means that an insurance company cannot increase the premiums on a disability policy in the future, for any reason.
An Own-Occupation policy allows you to receive full monthly benefits if you are unable to work in your own occupation even if you are able to return to work in a different occupation.
This is the period of time an insured must be disabled before benefits begin to accrue, the first benefit check is issued 30 days after the end of the Elimination Period. In other words, this is your deductible. Common Elimination Periods are 60, 90, and 180 days.
This is the length of time that your policy pays benefits while you're disabled. Common Benefit Periods are 2, 5, and 10 years, or To Ages 65, 67, and 70.
Yes. I help my clients with their life insurance, long-term care insurance, and their retirement plans using annuities. I also help business owners with employee benefits, with a focus on voluntary life and disability coverages, as well as design and funding for buy/sell agreements, key person insurance, qualified and non-qualified plans.