Protect Your Firm’s Most Valuable Asset

In a recent survey, The Study of Employee Benefit Trends, conducted by MetLife in 2009, 50 percent of employers said that keeping their current employees is their most important benefits objective—ahead of containing costs and increasing productivity.

Offering your employees good benefits, including salary, health care coverage, and retirement incentives are key to retaining your top employees. However, it may be surprising that in that same survey, 69 percent of employees say offering them other insurance benefits (life, dental, disability, vision, etc.) are becoming more important factors to keeping them loyal.

In the wake of the nation’s current economic challenges, more employees are reevaluating their benefits and are looking to their employers to help them with their financial security. That’s why it’s more important than ever before that firms consider adding benefits that help their employees protect their future financial security.

Term Life Insurance: A Valuable Employee Benefit

In most situations, Group Term Life Insurance has become a popular insurance benefit that helps employers maintain high employee retention rates. It provides an easy way to help your employees secure the financial security they seek but it’s relatively hassle-free for them to enroll. Usually enrollment is on a guaranteed acceptance basis.

In addition, Term Life Insurance rates are generally lower than other types of life insurance plans. When it’s offered on a group basis, rates are typically lower than one employee could find on his or her own. Term Life Insurance also offers a variety of options as part of its overall packaging, including coverage choices (usually based on employees’ annual salaries) and additional features like benefits for accidents, waiver of premium if disabled and partial benefits for terminal illness.

How the AIA Group Firm Term Life Plan Stacks Up

If your firm is looking to add Term Life Insurance as part of your employee benefits package and you have at least two full-time employees working 20 or more hours a week and an owner, partner or officer is an AIA member, your firm would qualify for the AIA Group Firm Term Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance Plan.

This members-only AIA Plan features these advantages:

•    Choice between two benefit options: one time (up to $50,000) or two times (up to $100,000) employee salary.
•    Additional benefits available for accidental death (doubles their base life benefit).
•    Guaranteed enrollment for each employee for up to $100,000.00 if your firm has 10 or more employees.
•    Provides flexibility to cost-share this benefit with your employees.
•    Affordable group rates based on the group buying power of the entire AIA membership regardless whether you choose to have the firm pay the premium or decide to elect the employee contributory option.
•    Tax-deductible business expense if your firm pays for your employees’ premiums.
•    Includes waiver of premium if disabled and offers an accelerated benefit that pays partial benefits if an employee becomes terminally ill.

To secure this valuable benefit for your firm, you need to complete an Employer Participation Agreement and have each eligible employee complete an application. You can find these appropriate forms and learn more details about this plan by visiting the AIA Trust website page on Firm Term Life benefits.

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The Group Firm Term Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance Plan is underwritten by New York Life Insurance Company, 51 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10010 under Policy Form GMR-ER, Group Policy G-11108-0/FACE.  Complete details including features, costs, eligibility, renewability, limitations and exclusions are contained in the Certificate of Insurance issued to each insured.