Being Resilient in Disability & Death
Dan Weedin
Risk Advisor / Crisis Navigator / Insurance Strategist / Speaker, Author, Podcaster and Candidate for Mayor of Poulsbo 2025
I’ve got a client in the professional services business. His business model includes annual payments from clients to him in advance, which results in about $500,000 of accounts receivables.?
No employees. He’s the guy.?
If he dies or becomes disabled, he or his wife is in the hook for half a million dollars of repayments for services not rendered.?
We are creating a Disability & Death Plan to solve the potential financial calamity.?
Buy-Sell Agreements make sense when there are partners. When it’s just you, it changes the equation and becomes a Disability & Death Plan.?
Regardless of the situation, every business owners needs to have a plan if they can no longer produce or if they die.?
What that requires is a three-pronged attack…
First, buy enough disability and life insurances to cover any outstanding obligations. Not doing so puts you or your loved ones in a position of financial peril.?
Disability will impact your lifestyle and future financial stability. Disability is scary because unlike death, there is increased uncertainty on when or if you can return.?
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Disability protects the one asset you don’t yet have, your future income.?
Life insurance safeguards peace of mind for survivors. In my client’s case, his wife would have extreme stress if she had to worry about paying all the clients out of the value of the business. I don’t imagine any beneficiary has turned down money from a life insurance company. There is always a need.
Yes, I’m talking about business owners and business risk. However, you don’t have to be the boss to be impacted by disability or death.?
Every employee is the CEO of their own family business, however that looks.?
Do you have a Disability & Death plan? Does it include a Will? Do you carry adequate disability and life insurances?
Life is fragile. Debt doesn’t go away with either disability or death.?
Make sure your business - including your personal business - has a plan and financing in place to assure financial security and peace of mind.?
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