VitalCheque: Group Critical Illness Insurance

VitalCheque © 

“The financial safety net for a medical crisis!”

VitalCheque is the ultimate in Critical & Chronic Illness protection insurance

Vital
Cheque
can be purchased as either a Basic Plan or as an Enhanced Plan.

 

 

VitalCheque Plan Options:

 

Covered Event

Basic

Plan

Enhanced

Plan

Cancer (Life threatening)

Heart Attack

Hemiplegia

Kidney Failure

Paraplegia

Quadriplegia

Stroke

Alzheimer’s Disease

 

Aorta Surgery

 

Aplastic Anemia

 

Benign Brain Tumor

 

Blindness

 

Bone Marrow Transplant

 

Coma

 

Coronary Bypass Surgery (CABS)

 

Deafness

 

Dismemberment / Loss of Limbs

 

Failure of Vital Organ requiring transplant

 

Heart transplant

 

Heart Valve Replacement

 

Kidney Transplant

 

Liver Transplant

 

Loss of Independence

 

Loss of Speech

 

Lung Transplant

 

Multiple Sclerosis

 

Motor Neuron Disease (including ALS)

 

Occupational HIV Infection

 

Pancreas Transplant

 

Parkinson’s Disease

 

Severe Burns

 

 

A Lump Sum Benefit is paid, for any of the above according to the plan selected, regardless of severity, degree of disability or ability to work.

 

You can elect any of several options:

(a) Mandatory plan,
(b) Optional Plan, or
(c) Combination of Mandatory & Optional plans. 

The total coverage, whether an individual plan or a combination of plans, cannot exceed $100,000 per life insured

 1.)  Mandatory Group plan:

 A mandatory plan covers all eligible employees without any required proof of good health.  A specific dollar amount limit is predetermined based upon the size of each group.  The group rate will be a composite rate determined based upon the gender and age mix of the specific group.

 Issue ages are to age 69 inclusive and benefits expire at age 70.

True Group Size

Guaranteed Issue basis

(any amount between)

Pre-Existing Conditions (months)

10 to 49 Lives

$10,000 and$50,000*

24/24

50 to 299 Lives

$10,000 and $100,000*

24/24

300 & over Lives

$10,000 and $100,000*

NN/A

 *NOTE: Individual selection i.e. by employee will not be allowed.  One benefit amount must be selected by “class” of employees and there cannot be more than a “3 times” benefit difference by class.  “Class” is defined either by title or occupational description. Either a Basic or Enhanced plan option must be selected for the entire group.

 

2.)  Optional Group plan:

 An optional plan is available as a top up to a mandatory plan or by itself.  Any amount between $25,000 and $100,000 (in units of $5,000) is available, subject to the completion and approval of a Critical Illness Statement of Health.  Rates will be based on gender (Male/Female), smoking status (Smoker/Nonsmoker), age (5 year age bands), and option selected, Basic or Enhanced.

 a) Optional True Group:

 There must be a minimum of 5 insured lives for an optional group plan to be implemented or used to top up a mandatory plan.

 b) Optional Affinity/Association Group:

 An optional plan is only available for Associations or Affinity programs involving 100 or more insured lives.

NOTE:

All Optional plan participants are subject to the completion and approval of a Critical Illness Statement of Health.

Issue ages are to age 64 inclusive and benefits expire at age 70.

If a mandatory plan is already in place, an Optional plan for only the spouses of employees/members is permitted.

 

Optional Plan

True Group

5 insured lives & over

Employee/Member & Spouse

$25,000 to $100,000*

Affinity /Association

100 insured lives & over

Employee/Member & Spouse

$25,000 to $100,000*

 

* Any amount from $25,000 to $100,000 in units of $5,000.

 

Both the Basic plan and the Enhanced plan options are available for Mandatory Group plan programs as well as Optional Group plan programs.  All figures, amounts and benefits are in Canadian dollars.

  

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News Releases


VitalCheque GCII rates lowered by 18%

LifeBeat
combines both critical illness, long-term care coverage

NR18 - 08 Aug 2008
NR17 - 13 Jun 2008
NR16 - 20 May 2008

NR15 - 8 Feb 2008

 



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