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What is the Life Insurance Conversion Option?
Wednesday, 21 Dec, 2011 – 16:31 | No Comment
What is the Life Insurance Conversion Option?

The Life Insurance conversion option provides an employee whose group insurance coverage is ceasing to convert their current Basic and Optional Life insurance amount to an individual insurance policy without the need to provide evidence …

What is Mandatory Generic Substitution?
Wednesday, 7 Dec, 2011 – 15:13 | No Comment
What is Mandatory Generic Substitution?

Mandatory Generic Substitution is a drug plan feature that limits the ingredient cost of a drug charge to that of the lowest cost alternative.  Where there is a generic interchangeable drug (a generic equivalent) then …

How To Calculate Monthly Life Insurance Premium
Saturday, 3 Dec, 2011 – 11:03 | No Comment
How To Calculate Monthly Life Insurance Premium

Life insurance is expressed as a rate per $1,000 of insurance.  To calculate Life Insurance premium you take the benefit volume per $1,000 of coverage multiplied by the monthly rate.  For example, to calculate the …

How To Calculate Monthly Long Term Disability Premium
Monday, 12 Jan, 2009 – 11:35 | No Comment
How To Calculate Monthly Long Term Disability Premium

Long Term Disability (LTD) is expressed per $100 of benefit volume.  To calculate monthly LTD premium you take the benefit volume multiplied by the rate per $100 of coverage.  For example, if you have monthly …