Principal Financial Group

• Robust Offerings for Businesses
• Group Disability Features
• Simplified Underwriting for Individual Disability Insurance Policies
• Policies for Retirement Protection

Robust Offerings for Businesses

Principal offers many kinds of disability policies that benefit business owners. These policies include the following:

• Overhead Expense (OE) (includes option to add Business Loan Protection Rider)
• Disability Buy-Out
• Key Person Replacement

These offerings help protect your business whether you or another key person on your team becomes disabled and cannot work.

Group Disability Features

Employers can offer employees short-term or long-term group disability coverage from Principal. Key features of these policies include:

• Two qualifying definitions of disability (inability to perform a majority of job's or occupation's responsibilities or inability to earn 80 percent of prior income working in a modified capacity
• Return to Work^SM Resources (rehabilitation plans, incentives for participating in rehabilitation or returning to work, employer reimbursement for reasonable accommodations)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (concierge service connecting people to community resources, can include financial and legal services)

These features offer valuable coverage and support to your employees.

It's common for disability insurers to offer programs like Principal's Return to Work Resources with their employer plans. Principal's support programs make it competitive in the industry.

Simplified Underwriting for Individual Disability Insurance Policies

Underwriting is how insurers evaluate the risk of issuing an insurance policy. Simplified underwriting can be faster and less thorough than a fully underwritten policy. For example, it may not include a medical exam.

Principal's simplified underwriting for disability insurance is available on individual disability insurance policies that offer a monthly benefit up to $6,000.

To complete simplified underwriting, you'll work with your advisor and have a phone interview with one of Principal's professionals. In a few days, you'll learn whether you've been approved.

Simplified underwriting can make the insurance buying process easier, which improves the buying experience.

Buying disability insurance usually takes time because of underwriting. It's uncommon to be able to apply and purchase a policy in one sitting. Principal's simplified underwriting makes the application and purchase process faster, which makes it advantageous for people looking to get a disability policy in place quickly.

Policies for Retirement Protection

Principal Financial stands out from other insurers for its DI Retirement Security insurance product. Rather than paying the disability benefit to you directly, the benefit goes into a trust to protect your retirement savings and income. You can choose how your funds are invested.

While these plans don't offer immediate support for your current financial needs, they do help by continuing to grow your retirement savings through investments.

• Insufficient Customer Reviews
• Limited Online Information for Individual Disability Insurance Policies

Insufficient Customer Reviews

Principal disability insurance reviews are few on BestCompany.com. Since the insurance company has received so few reviews, conclusions about the customer experience are not available.

Limited Online Information for Individual Disability Insurance Policies

If you're looking for more information on Principal Financial's individual disability insurance coverage, you'll have to work directly with an adviser. It can be frustrating to see so little information online, especially if you're in the research stages.

However, working with an adviser can help you understand more about how disability insurance works and what kind of a policy would best meet your needs.