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Chart from The Income Protection Podcast episode showing the projected “income asset” or human life value of a 35-year-old high-earning professional, with lifetime earnings approaching $20 million, illustrating the core argument behind individual disability insurance, own-occupation coverage, and income protection planning. The graph demonstrates how future income is a multi-million-dollar financial asset that must be insured to prevent catastrophic loss, especially for physicians, dentists, attorneys and other specialists who rely on their ability to work. The episode uses this visual to explain why employer long-term disability plans often fall short, why supplemental disability insurance is essential, and how income-loss scenarios expose large coverage gaps that put financial plans at risk. Listeners are encouraged to hear the full discussion on income protection strategies, disability risk, coverage design, and the importance of visually modeling lifetime earnings.
Income Protection Podcast

Most High-Income Professionals Are Underinsured — And Don’t Realize It [Podcast]

December 9, 2025
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Disability Insurance for Residents

Resident Physician Disability Coverage: What Medical Residents Need to Know About Timing and Underwriting

December 8, 2025
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Editorial illustration symbolizing disability insurance coverage gaps and delayed benefits, using a fractured pocket watch over a paycheck to represent income disruption during long federal disability waits.
Disability Insurance

Longer Delays in Federal Disability Decisions Expose Employer Disability Insurance Coverage Gaps

December 5, 2025
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Flock of migratory birds landing on an open field at dawn, used as an editorial metaphor for locum physicians whose hospital assignments constantly shift, highlighting instability in employer-based disability insurance, life insurance, and long-term health insurance coverage as mobile clinicians move between facilities with inconsistent income protection benefits.
Disability Insurance for Physicians

When Hospital Benefits Lapse Between Assignments, Mobile Physicians Face Dangerous Coverage Gaps

December 4, 2025
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Disability Insurance for Physicians

Physician’s Injury Reveals How Fast Income Can Collapse Without Disability Insurance

December 3, 2025
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Income Protection Podcast

Introducing the Income Protection Podcast

December 2, 2025
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Disability Insurance for Residents

Hospitals Expand No-Exam Disability Insurance to Medical Residents

December 2, 2025
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Data visualizations and disability-insurance coverage trends examined in an article exploring why physicians are buying more individual disability insurance policies but ending up with less protection than they carried a decade ago, including shrinking base benefits, rising policy counts paired with falling premium volume, and the shift toward modular, flexible disability insurance contracts with slimmer built-in features. The image reflects the article’s focus on physician income protection gaps, own-occupation disability definitions, weaknesses in employer-provided long-term disability plans for doctors, and Guardian’s early strategic redesign of its ProVider Plus disability policy lineup, which anticipated physicians’ move toward adjustable benefits, specialty-specific coverage, future increase options, residual disability riders, cost-of-living adjustments and layered disability insurance construction. The visual supports the discussion of how physicians today rely on disability insurance structures that emphasize portability and flexibility over maximum benefit amounts, why the gap between physician earnings and disability benefits continues to widen, and how changes in clinical duties, hospital employment models, specialty risks, variable compensation, and student-loan burdens shape the modern disability insurance landscape. The alt text is designed to increase topical relevancy for search queries related to physician disability insurance, individual disability income (IDI) coverage, Guardian ProVider Plus, own-occupation protection for physicians, specialty disability risks, modular benefit design, income-loss scenarios, Milliman disability-income survey data, and the ongoing evolution of clinician income-protection strategies.
Disability Insurance for Physicians

Physicians Are Buying More Disability Insurance Policies But Getting Less Protection

December 1, 2025
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Disability Insurance for Physicians

Fewer Crashes, More Chronic Disease: Conflicting Health Trends Are Making Disability Risk Less Predictable

November 26, 2025
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Disability Insurance for Residents

Underwriting Pressures Changing Medical Resident Disability Insurance Applications

November 25, 2025
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Two film studio executives seated in tall director’s highboy chairs watching a production monitor while a director and cinematographer work at a cinema camera on set, illustrating the need for disability insurance for executives, executive disability insurance, and individual disability coverage for highly compensated creative professionals, referencing insurance companies and insurance brokers, and highlighting LSI themes such as income protection, own-occupation coverage, disability income benefits, long-term disability, and income replacement.
Disability Insurance for Executives

How Executives Get Employers to Fund Their Disability Insurance

November 24, 2025
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