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The Protected Entrepreneur

Business Protection Strategies Built for Business Owners

You built your business from the ground up. What happens to everything you've created if you're suddenly unable to work? Most business owners are one disability or death away from losing it all — and the most underinsured professionals in America.

Why Every Business Owner Needs Income Protection

Your Business Depends on You

As a business owner your company's success is directly tied to your ability to show up and lead. A disability that takes you out, even temporarily, can bring your entire operation to a halt and put everything you've built at risk.

Your Overhead Never Stops

Even when you can't work your business expenses keep coming — rent, payroll, utilities, insurance, and loan payments don't pause for a disability. Business Overhead Expense coverage keeps your doors open while you recover.

Protect Partners & Key People

What happens to your business if a partner or key employee becomes disabled or dies? Without proper planning your business could face serious financial strain or even dissolution.

What We Offer

Comprehensive protection solutions built specifically for business owners and entrepreneurs.

Business Overhead Expense (BOE) Insurance

The most overlooked and critical coverage for business owners. Pays your actual business expenses — rent, staff, utilities, equipment leases — while you're disabled and unable to work. Keeps your business alive while you recover.

Individual Disability Insurance (IDI)

Replaces your personal income if you become disabled. Portable, customizable, and not tied to any business structure. Designed around your specific income and risk profile.

Key Person Disability Insurance

Protects your business from the financial impact of losing a critical employee or partner to disability. Covers recruiting, training, and lost revenue during the transition.

Business Succession Planning

Properly structured life and disability insurance ensures your business transfers smoothly in the event of a partner's death or permanent disability — protecting all parties involved.

Buy-Sell Agreement Funding

Life and disability insurance funded buy-sell agreements guarantee your business partners can purchase your share of the business if you die or become permanently disabled.

Term & Permanent Life Insurance

Affordable and flexible life insurance solutions to protect your family, your business partners, and your company's financial future.

Business Owners are Preferred Risks

Here's what that Means for You

Business owners and entrepreneurs are classified as preferred risks by most major insurance carriers — meaning you have access to premium coverage at competitive rates. Here's what that unlocks:

Competitive Premiums

Business owners qualify for favorable premium rates, especially when coverage is structured correctly through the business as a tax-advantaged strategy.

Tax Advantages

Business Overhead Expense premiums are typically tax deductible as a business expense, making BOE coverage one of the smartest financial tools available to entrepreneurs.

Business Continuity

Properly structured disability and life insurance ensures your business survives and thrives, even through the unexpected loss of a key person or owner.

Top Carrier Access

We work with Ameritas, Guardian, MassMutual, Principal and Standard — the gold standard carriers for business owner disability and life insurance coverage.

The Protected Entrepreneur — A Vibrant Life Insurance Specialty Program

Serving business owners and entrepreneurs across the country with personalized disability and life insurance solutions.

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Portsmouth, NH

(207) 200-1099

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