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September 1, 2009
Assurant Employee Benefits focuses on need for coverage during Life Insurance Awareness Month
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month and Assurant Employee Benefits, a national provider of non-medical group employee benefits including term life insurance, is eager to spread the word about the need for the coverage, which can offer an important source of financial protection.
Life insurance can play a key role in determining whether an individual’s survivors have needed financial assistance available to them, as it provides a cash benefit upon an insured’s death. The benefit can help survivors meet important expenses, both immediate and future, including funeral costs, daily living expenses and education costs.
While most people know they need some level of life insurance to protect their survivors in the event of an untimely death, few want to think about that need and many put off purchasing coverage. As a result, far too few individuals have coverage in place. According to LIMRA International, one third of American adults carry no life insurance at all.
Group term life insurance from Assurant Employee Benefits can provide an easy, cost-effective solution to the need for coverage. Available on an employer-paid or employee-paid basis, these policies can be customized to meet a wide range of protection needs and can include a choice of valuable provisions. Contact Assurant Employee Benefits today for more information.
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About Assurant Employee Benefits
Assurant Employee Benefits specializes in quality employee benefits and services, including long-term and short-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, dental coverage, and disability reinsurance management services. Assurant Employee Benefits also offers voluntary (employee-paid) disability, life and dental plans. Products and services marketed by Assurant Employee Benefits are underwritten or provided by Union Security Insurance Company or an affiliated prepaid dental company. In New York, products are marketed by Assurant Employee Benefits and underwritten by Union Security Life Insurance Company of New York, which is licensed in New York and has its principal place of business in Syracuse, New York. Plans contain limitations and exclusions. Underwriting flexibility allows Assurant Employee Benefits to market tailor-made benefit plans for groups of most any size. Assurant Employee Benefits is located in Kansas City, Mo. (www.assurantemployeebenefits.com)
Assurant Employee Benefits is part of Assurant, which offers specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected international markets. Its four key businesses – Assurant Employee Benefits, Assurant Health, Assurant Solutions and Assurant Specialty Property – have partnered with clients who are leaders in their industries and have built leadership positions in a number of specialty market segments worldwide.
Assurant, a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500, is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AIZ. Assurant has approximately 14,000 employees worldwide and is headquartered in New York’s financial district. (www.assurant.com)
Media contact:
Jacquie Hill, Public
Relations Specialist
Assurant Employee Benefits
2323 Grand Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64108
Ph: 816.881.8968
jacquie.hill@assurant.com
