The Critical Illness benefit helps employees prepare financially for an unexpected life event. This critical illness benefit is designed to help fill the gaps in your health insurance and can provide benefits to assist the additional expenses such as deductibles, home health care needs, travel, loss of income, rehabilitation and childcare. This financial protection offers a simple way to strengthen your benefits package.

Some critical illness examples are:

• Heart attack
• Stroke
• End stage renal failure
• Major organ failure
• Permanent paralysis due to a covered accident
• Coma
• Blindness