About the author
Allan Checkoway, RHU
About the Author
Allan Checkoway’s career includes more than 30 years in the health care insurance field, and a specialty in the brokerage placement of disability and long-term care insurance coverage. Allan is the author of ‘Disability Income: A How To Guide’, published by R & R Newkirk, and ‘Disability Income Insurance’, published by Kaplan Publishing. His articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Legal Economics, Lawyers Weekly, Journal of Financial Planning, National Underwriter, Health Insurance Underwriter, Life Association News, Advisor Today, ProducersWEB, and other professional trade journals. Allan most recently authored ‘Getting Paid’, a Disability resource manual on filing long term disability claims and appeals with disability insurers, the Social Security Administration and the Veterans Administration.
Allan received the National Association of Health Underwriters Norma Medill Award for Journalism and is Past President of the Disability Insurance Training Council. He also served as Regional Vice President of the National Association of Health Underwriters. He has been a frequent speaker at the Million Dollar Round Table, Life and Health Underwriter, Financial Planning and other professional association meetings. Allan has also been a featured speaker at LIMRA (Life Insurance Marketing Research Association), Certified Financial Planners and HIAA (Health Insurance Association of America) educational conferences.
Allan is presently an Employee Benefit Consultant and the Principal of Disability Services Group, an Employee Benefit Advisory firm.