Editor's note: Benefits Selling's Broker of the Year finalists will be revealed Monday-Friday this week. Butch Zemar is our fifth and final finalist.

If teaching scuba diving in Chicago were more lucrative, then it's likely the Windy City would be missing one of its top insurance salespeople.

"I got into the insurance business by accident," explains Butch Zemar, health care reform consultant for Elite Benefits of America in Chicago. "I went for a group interview for selling products to the self-employed market. It wasn't until the end of the presentation when I asked what the product was — it was health insurance. I didn't even have health insurance myself."

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