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What is Key Person Insurance?

Key person insurance is designed to insure the lives of your key executives. It helps you protect yourself, the company, and its creditors against the financial impact (loss) should one of your key executives suffer a disabling illness, injury, or premature death.

Essentially, key person insurance:

Establishes your company as the owner, beneficiary, and premium payer of life and disability insurance policies covering a key executive;
Secures the receipt of needed funds on an income tax free basis in the amount necessary to replace the economic loss of the key executive's talents;
Provides funding for hiring the right replacement;
Reassures creditors and employees of the security and continuity of the company.

Leadership Economics

Effective leadership recognizes and values talent. Your leadership team reflects what you consider to be mission-critical talent for your business and how it best serves your customers. The members of your team also highlight what is necessary in order for you to do what you do best.

As you think about your leadership team, have you considered what would happen in the event your lost a member of your team unexpectedly? Just ask: would the unexpected loss of any member of my team cause any of these economic challenges for our business:

Loss of sales revenue?
Loss of key customer account relationships?
Interruption of product, operations, or services?
Loss of competitive position in the marketplace?
Disruption of creditor trust and relationships?
Loss of your ability to focus on what you do best?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, leadership economics comes into play. Leadership economics is about minimizing risk, maximizing certainty, and mitigating hardship. Insure the economic loss your business would suffer in the event a member of your team experienced a disabling injury, illness, or even a premature death.

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How Is the Amount Determined?

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The amount of life and disability insurance the business may need for a given executive depends on a variety of financial underwriting factors.

Generally speaking, key person life insurance amounts are based on a multiple of an individual executive's salary. The multiple generally runs from 2 to 6 times their compensation. Other factors are also considered, including:

How much would it cost you to replace the individual's talent and expertise?
How quickly could you find a suitable replacement?
Would you need to consider hiring bonuses and possible relocation of a suitable replacement?
How long would it take the new hire to be performing at the same level as the key executive was?
How would you quantify the amount the key executive contributes to the profitability of the company?

Your CPA or other financial advisor can also be a great resource for estimating the appropriate value of a key executive.

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Give us a call or click the button on your left, submit the on-line request, and we will give you a call. We will need to discuss the following in order to generate an accurate quote for you:

Name
Date of Birth
Gender
Tobacco Use
Title & Duties
Current Compensation (salary plus incentives, etc.)

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