With the launch of Standard’s new Disability Insurance product, Platinum Advantage, in 42 states next week (January 3, 2017), the discussion below of their “Family Care” benefit is timely. A Guest Blog by Jill Frohardt, Regional Director, The Standard Driving home a couple of weeks ago, I heard a story on the radio about a poll that […]
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Standard’s Protector Advantage & Holiday Pictures
DIBroker East-Eskra & Associates celebrated a very successful year with our annual Holiday Lunch today (12/5/2016) at Bricktops in Coral Gables. We started the celebration with an outstanding meal last night at Ortanique on the Mile, a restaurant that we highly recommend if you visit Coral Gables. Jill Frohardt of the Standard flew into town […]
Read MoreMetlife Suspends Individual Disability Insurance Sales—What Will the Impact be?
For roughly the last dozen years, MetLife has been an integral part of our operation. We are wholesalers in disability insurance. We only do one thing, and we do it very well. At DIBroker East-Eskra & Associates, we add value by providing access to nine or so insurance carriers (the number changes a bit depending […]
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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