• Almost 1 in 4 of today’s 20 year-olds will become disabled before reaching age 67.
Source: Social Security Basic Facts, February 2009
• Half of all respondents (49%) indicated that their foreclosure was caused in part by a medical problem, including illness or injuries (32%), unmanageable medical bills (23%), lost work due to a medical problem (27%), or caring for sick family members (14%).
Source:
Christopher T. Robertson, Richard Egelhof, & Michael Hoke, "Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Foreclosures" Health Matrix 18 (2008): 65-105. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher_robertson/2
• There is a death caused by a motor vehicle crash every 12 minutes. There is a disabling injury every 14 seconds.
Source: Injury Facts®, 2009
• Income lost through disability is 2 times as great as auto accident losses, and 3 times as great as fire losses.
Source: National Safety Council, 2009
• 51.2 million Americans were classified as disabled in 2002.
Source: "Americans With Disabilities: 2002," U.S. Bureau of the Census, May 2006
• Women between ages of 35 and 65 are 40% more likely than men to become disabled for 90 or more days.
Source: Compton Insurance Marketing, 2007
• For 30-year-old males, the risk of a long-term disability is 4.1 times more likely than the risk of death. For 40-year-olds, it is 2.9 times more likely. And at age 50, it is 2.2 times more likely.
Source: National Safety Council, 2008
• Disability is the cause of nearly half of all home foreclosures.
Source: Compton Insurance Marketing, 2007
• 69% of the private sector workforce has no long-term disability insurance.
Source: Social Security Basic Facts, February 2009
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