NU Online News Service, June 13, 3:32 p.m. – Jefferson Pilot Benefit Partners, Omaha, Neb., a unit of Jefferson-Pilot Corp., Greensboro, N.C., has introduced a critical illness insurance product, the Critical Assistance Recovery Enhancement feature.
Jefferson Pilot is offering critical illness coverage as an option for purchasers of its group and voluntary long-term disability insurance.
The CARE feature provides lump-sum cash benefits for employees who survive for a minimum amount of time with a specified critical condition. The critical conditions covered are heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, life-threatening cancer and major organ transplants.