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What Should I Look For in a High-limit Long-term Disability Policy: Seamless Integration

Part 1 – Seamless Integration is important at every policy stage By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 9/19/2023 High-limit long-term disability coverage (High-limit LTD) is a product that is gaining traction among highly compensated professionals. Increasingly, law firms and corporations…
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What Should I Look For in a High-limit Long-term Disability Policy: Flexibility & Customization

Part 2 – Your group is unique – you need flexibility to customize By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 9/25/2023 High-limit long-term disability coverage (High-limit LTD) is a product that is gaining traction among highly compensated professionals. Increasingly, law firms…
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What Should I Look For in a High-limit Long-term Disability Policy: Administration & Implementation

Part 3 – Exploring administration and implementation By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 10/2/2023 High-limit long-term disability coverage (High-limit LTD) is a product that is gaining traction among highly compensated professionals. Increasingly, law firms and corporations are realizing that standard…
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TWG’s Introduction to Lloyd’s of London

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 6/27/2023 You may have heard of Lloyd’s of London. For people outside the insurance industry, Lloyd’s often makes headlines when a celebrity takes out an unusual insurance policy. So, perhaps you first read about Lloyd’s…
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Law Firm Partners: Hard work pays off. Average compensation surpasses $1 million mark

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 2/7/2023 It isn’t easy to get to the top – making partner requires years of hard work and sacrifice. From graduating at the top of your undergraduate class, taking the LSATs, getting into a top law school, interviewing…
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Executive Compensation is Building Back Up, But Are Executives in a Precarious Position?

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 11/29/2022 After Lean Pandemic Years, Executive Compensation is Being Modernized. While CEOs saw salary cuts and adjustments to bonuses during the pandemic, many of those cuts have been restored and CEO pay is up…
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C-Suite Executives Are Invaluable Assets – But Are These Individuals Receiving Proper Protection?

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 12/2/2021 When the Unexpected Strikes It was a rather bleak Friday afternoon when Jonathan Smith, CFO of his company, visited his doctor to alleviate the chronic headaches and frequent joint pain he had been…
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Trends in Executive Benefits for 2022

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 12/27/2021 Now two years into the pandemic, the once uncharted waters of work-from-home have calmed as companies adapt to more lasting work infrastructures. A majority of the burgeoning workforce reports to be happier with…
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4 Biggest Broker Mistakes When Offering Clients Supplemental Disability Insurance

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: May 5, 2022 1. Leading With Sky-high Benefit Amounts Some brokers focus on presenting their clients with impressive benefit amounts, relying on what the client thinks they want, versus what they actually need. This may ultimately…
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Shelly Mushinski Reveals What Sets The Westport Group’s Enrollment Services Apart

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 2/7/2022 Shelly Mushinski joined The Westport Group with an extensive history of worksite marketing experience, specifically the implementation and enrollment of executive voluntary benefits. Through strategic, results-based enrollment solutions and effective, customer-first service models,…
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For Clint Romesha, The Fight Continues

Medal Of Honor Recipient Visits The Westport Group to Raise Awareness for Veterans By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 5/23/2023 By any measure, Clint Romesha has lived a heroic life. His leadership in the Battle of COP Keating was recognized …
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How Lloyd’s of London Started

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 10/18/2023 You may have heard of Lloyd’s of London. For people outside the insurance industry, Lloyd’s often makes headlines when a celebrity takes out an unusual insurance policy. While many are introduced this way, …
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Lloyd’s is a Marketplace

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 10/18/2023 Lloyd’s isn’t an insurance company. It is a marketplace where brokers meet with underwriters to negotiate the transfer of risk. Oftentimes multiple Underwriters will be on one policy, allowing them to cumulatively take …
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Open Markets, Lineslips and Binders

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 10/18/2023 Lloyd’s policies may differ substantially, however, one thing that they all have in common is that they are backed with Lloyd’s financial security, so you can feel confident in your coverage. Despite being …
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TWG’s Influence and Differentiation

By: The Westport Group, LLC Published: 10/18/2023 The Westport Group is extremely proud to be a Lloyd’s Coverholder. The Lloyd’s marketplace allows us to get enough capacity to offer industry leaders protection in the case of a disability that would …
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