a. If Your Active Service ends due to the Employer-approved unpaid leave of absence, other than an approved FMLA leave, insurance may be reinstated only if the reinstatement occurs within 12 weeks from the date insurance ends. 8) Under the General Provisions section, the following changes are made: a) The following provision is added: New Entrants All new Employees becoming eligible for insurance in one of the Covered Classes shall be added. b) The first paragraph of the Policy Termination provision is replaced with the following: We may terminate insurance on or after the first anniversary of the Policy Effective Date. The Policyholder or We may terminate insurance on any Premium Due Date. Written notice with the reason for such termination, by certified mail, must be given at least 60 days prior to such Premium Due Date. Failure by the Policyholder to pay premiums when due or within the Grace Period shall be deemed notice to Us to terminate insurance at the end of the period for which premium was paid. 9) The following Rider form(s) is/are not available: TERM LIFE INSURANCE RIDER Maryland residents: 1) Under the General Definitions section, item 2 of the second paragraph of the Dependent child definition includes adopted child as follows: 2. adopted child, beginning with the date of the filing of the petition for adoption. It also means the legally adopted child of the Employee’s Spouse or domestic partner/Partner to a Civil Union provided the child is living with, and is financially dependent upon the Employee;
Massachusetts residents: 1) Under the Continuation of Insurance Provisions section, the following provision is added:
CONTINUATION OF INSURANCE PROVISIONS Additional Continuation of Insurance Provisions If an Employee leaves the group due to termination of employment resulting from a Plant Closing or Partial Closing, insurance for such Employee will be continued until the earliest of the following dates:
1. 90 days from the date of the Plant Closing or Partial Closing; 2. The date the Employee becomes eligible for similar benefits. As used in this provision:
''Plant Closing'' means a permanent cessation or reduction of business at a facility which results or will result as determined by the director in the permanent separation of at least 90% of the employees of said facility within a period of six months prior to the date of certification or with such other period as the director shall prescribe, provided that such period shall fall within the six month period prior to the date of certification. ''Partial Closing'' means a permanent cessation of a major discrete portion of the business conducted at a facility which results in the termination of a significant number of the employees of said facility and which affects workers and communities in a manner similar to that of Plant Closings. If an Employee leaves the group for a reason other than as a result of a Plant Closing or Partial Closing, insurance for such Employee will be continued until the earliest of the following dates: 1. 31 days from the date the Employee leaves the group;
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