Recently a good producer by the name of Brock Jolly came to me for help with a group of Podiatrists he works with. Brock’s primary company is Mass Mutual, but Brock shops every case for his clients to find the best fit. His clients all had personal disability insurance and were now looking to insure […]
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Metlife’s Departure from Individual Disability Insurance sales leaves a Gap
As reported on April 20, 2016, Metlife will discontinue individual disability insurance sales on September 1, 2016 (they will continue to offer GSI and underwritten policies that supplement GSI policies). Most of the remaining insurance carriers that offer individual disability insurance, only participate with group LTD to $25,000 or $30,000. A few go to $35,000, […]
Read MoreE-Apps, E-Delivery and Artificial Intelligence Are the Future (and it is happening now)
E-apps and E-delivery are here now at last. AI will arrive later, but arrive it will. A future blog will address AI. The insurance industry is not known for being on the cutting edge of technology–to put it mildly. And the individual disability insurance market, our small portion of this vast industry, tends to be even […]
Read MoreMetLife to suspend IDI sales Sept 1st
My second blog post was planned as a happy retelling of our reward trip this week to Key Largo for our top Sales Partners here at dibroker east (Clarke Morris, Tim Murray, and Michael Tyler qualified)–that will have to wait. Kieran Mullins Senior Vice President at MetLife sent out an email today announcing the suspension […]
Read MoreWelcome to the Initial DIBroker East Blog: Buy-Sell
Welcome to my initial blog for dibroker east/Eskra & Associates. This blog will show up occasionally when something interesting happens in the disability insurance world that I want to share with you. I was hoping to get my father, Mike Eskra, Jr. to take on this blog. He was a bit of a legend in […]
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