| Health Insurance:
Individual Health
Insurance:
We have many major insurance
carriers available for your individual health insurance
needs. This product is available for those who medically
qualify. It is a great alternative for the self-employed
or for employees who cannot afford their employers coverage
either for themselves or their dependents. The plan is
portable and can therefore, be retained regardless of your
employment status. Give us a call to see if this product
would work for you.
Group Health Insurance:
We will work with you
and all the major insurance carriers in Colorado to lay out
a plan that will help you increase benefits and reduce costs
for your company. We can set you up with plans from the very
simple Colorado Basic Plan to highly complex Self Funded Plans.
Working side by side, we can design and build a plan that meets
your needs and budget. Our
ability does not end at the sale unlike most of our
competitors. Customer service is our priority, in fact 85% of
all our clients come from client referrals.
Life Insurance:
Term Life:
Term life is insurance for a set period of time,
1- 30 years. The coverage should be level, the cost consistent.
Not every company uses the same guidelines. At the end of the
term period, the cost will go up substantially for the same
amount of coverage. If you are lucky, you might be able to qualify
for the same coverage, with a different company, for a higher
cost. Term insurance is excellent to protect a home mortgage,
large business obligation, guarantee a child's education if
the parent/caregiver dies too soon. In other words, term life
is for a finite period.
Whole Life:
Whole life is insurance that is designed to last
for most, if not all of your life. The premiums are designed
not to increase, the coverage remains the same and there is
a cash value, which can be used for emergencies, collateral
or to help supplement a future retirement income. The
coverage can increase when the cash value becomes large over
many years of ownership. The cost is initially much higher than term insurance
because part of every dollar paid goes to the future cash value
of the policy. Whole life is great to protect a permanent insurance
need such as a funeral, for old age, or to supplement a retirement
income. In the last 10 years, many people have lost sight
of the need for whole life insurance because of investment returns,
retirement plans and the like. Why not guarantee a portion of
your life insurance to be as permanent as your family is? After
all, it is a lasting legacy. In almost all cases, a quality term insurance policy
can be automatically changed to whole life insurance plan without
qualifying all over again!
Disability Insurance:
Disability insurance protects your income if you
are disabled and unable to work. If you are a homeowner, you automatically insure
your property. Why? Because your mortgage company requires it.
Yet, there is only a 1 in 10,000 chance of a total loss.
If you drive regularly, you insure your car as
well. Again, the state and auto dealers require automobile insurance
because most car owners finance their automobile purchases.
Even though you're not required to, you've probably insured
your life for at least a modest amount: You want to leave your
family some financial security after you're gone. Yet, if you're
like most people, you probably have no real plan to protect
the one source that makes everything go - your income! Even
though 1 out of every 8 people suffer a long term illness or
injury prior to retirement. That means everything you're working
for is at risk.
Here are some hard facts
about suffering a disability:
- A corporation generally
cannot pay an individual, regardless of the individual's position
or standing in the company, for more than 90 days.
- You cannot borrow money
from a lending institution when you are incapacitated.
- Friends or family cannot
lend or give you money on an unlimited basis.
- The federal government
will compensate you for a long term disability once you've
been unable to work in any meaningful job for at least 5 months.
In 70% of all cases, you will never qualify for government
compensation.
- To qualify for state
assistance, you would be required to give up all your real
property and savings - a real change of your lifestyle.
The only real solution
is to purchase, when you enjoy good health, disability income
protection to receive a guaranteed, tax free income.
I can plan your individual
benefits based on your income with some or all of these features:
- Beginning dates of benefits
as little as 30 days
- Guarantee of future
option purchases - regardless of your health.
- Guarantee that coverage
will never be canceled.
Cost of living increase
during a long term disability.
Long-Term Care
Insurance:
What exactly does this phrase mean? Everyone has a different idea about
this! It could mean, "going into a nursing home". You might say "I want to stay at home
and have my family take care of me" or "My children live far
away - I can live independently in assisted living." Long term care insurance covers all
these scenarios.
Benefits will pay - tax free - to help reimburse
the long term cost of anyone who needs assistance with 2 or
more activities of their day-to-day living. These are activities
we take for granted: Getting out of bed, taking a bath, getting
dressed. Also, who is going to plan the care for you when
you are unable to do for yourself or cannot make a decision?
All of these contingencies are addressed by the
insurers.
A quality plan includes:
- Coverage in any type of nursing facility
- Coverage in an assisted
living center.
- Expenses for day to
day living at home including modification of your house
- Caregiver training and
an individual who is paid by the insurer to guarantee your
plan of care is carried out with coordination of your doctors,
attorney, other health care providers and family.
- The policy will not
be canceled by the company
- It cannot be changed
for health or claim reasons.
- The coverage would be
valid in all 50 states.
Does everyone need Long Term Care insurance? NO
- you must have adequate income to pay for the coverage, the
financial resources to protect and good health going in so you
can qualify initially. If you have few assets, little income or savings,
then long term care coverage is not appropriate.
Key Person Insurance:
The death or disablement
of a Key Person can have a serious impact on a business. Key
Person protection can provide capital to the business if a key
individual's input is lost to the business through disability
or death.
Some sobering information:
- 1 in 5 businesses
have to be wound up or cashed up if there is an event which
affects a key person
- In a forced
sale situation, business assets only realize approximately
35% of the owners' perceived value
- The short term
impact of a major trauma can be as serious financially to
a business or family as death
The
insurance policy can provide the business with cash to:
- keep the business
running
- assure creditors
and lenders that their debts are safe
- assure customers
the business will continue
- cover the expenses
of finding and training a replacement
- cover the possible
loss of profit through loss of momentum.
Your key people
face risks such as death, disability and trauma.
Business Overhead
Insurance:
Business overhead disability
insurance protects your business. As a business owner, business
overhead disability insurance can be one of your most valuable
assets. In addition to protecting
your personal income should you become disabled, as a business
owner you have the additional burden of maintaining your business
operations during a period of disability. Your business can
be fully protected by overhead disability insurance. Business overhead disability
insurance, also known as business overhead expense (BOE) insurance,
is only available to working owners of small business. Premiums
paid for the BOE policy are fully tax deductible regardless
of the type of business entity (sole proprietorship, partnership,
S-Corporation, C-Corporation). Traditional BOE plans have
one thing in common: you pay premiums hoping you never use the
policy, but you get none of the premium back if you don't use
it. With a Surrender Value Benefit Rider on your BOE policy,
you'll be refunded 100% of premiums paid at age 65 less claims paid.
Buy-Sell Insurance:
What is a buy-sell plan
and why do you need one?
A buy-sell plan is a formal
arrangement to transfer ownership of a business interest to
another party in the event of the death or untimely disability
of the business owner. It is a valuable instrument in solving
the many problems that arise when a business owner dies or becomes
disabled.
A Buy-Sell Plan will:
- Specify the price at
which the interested parties agree to buy and sell the business
interest.
- Create a market for
each owner's business interest.
- Establish the value
of each owner's business interest for federal estate tax purposes.
- Assure creditors and
employees of the continuation of the business in the event
of an owner's death or disability.
- Provide income to a
disabled business owner without adversely affecting the business's
working capital.
- Provide the money to
fund the plan at the exact time it is needed
Who benefits from Buy-Sell
planning?
- Business owners benefit
from peace of mind knowing that plans have been made.
- Remaining business owners
retain exclusive control over all profits and legal rights.
- Remaining business owners
can continue the business without interruption, since they
use insurance proceeds to purchase the disabled/deceased owner's
business interest at a predetermined price.
- Family members are not
"forced" to participate in the business.
Family members or the
disabled owner are not subjected to future fluctuations in business
profits or possible loss of value of their business interest.
Annuities:
Do you want a guarantee
on the money you worked so hard to accumulate? Talk to us about
putting your money into an annuity.
Estate Planning:
"Protect Your Nest Egg"
A few hours of planning today
can save thousands in the future. Talk to us about your
individual situation and how we might be able to design a strategy.
Executive Bonus Plans:
"Would you like to discriminate
for yourself or your highly compensated employees?"
Plans can be designed to put
away more than the traditional retirement accounts allow.
Let us design a plan for you.
Deferred Compensation
Plans:
"If you don't need it today,
put it away for the future."
These are plans that let you
put away money for the future. Can be set up for the highly
compensated or the rank and file employees.
Charitable Giving:
We can help you design programs
to benefit your favorite charity. Call us to see how this
plan can work for you.
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