It grants income replacement benefits to an insured that is disabled to work due to a disease or injury.
Glossary Group: Glossary of Insurance Terms
Long-term disability income coverage
Collective or group disability income coverage that stipulates a maximum benefit period higher than a year. The maximum benefit period is usually extended to the insured’s normal retirement age or up to the age of 70.
Short-term collective or group disability income coverage
Collective or group disability income coverage that stipulates a maximum benefit period lower than a year. This coverage usually establishes a maximum benefit term of 13, 26, or 52 weeks.
Additional accelerated death benefit clauses
Clauses that stipulate that a policyholder and insured person may choose between receiving the entirety or part of the policy death benefit before their death, after certain conditions are met.
Actively-at-work clause
Collective or group insurance clause that requires that, in order to be eligible for coverage, the employee must be working actively and productively—they cannot be sick or in leave—the day the coverage comes into force.
Insurance for spouse and children clause
An additional clause that is added to an ordinary life insurance policy which provides coverage to the spouse and children of the insured.
Excess insurance clause
An individual health insurance policy clause that aims to prevent an insured from obtaining advantages from a disease or injury.
Free look clause
Free examination clause that grants a policyholder a specified period of time—usually ten days—after the policy has been delivered, to examine the policy.
Withdrawal clause
It grants the contract holder the right to withdraw the entirety or part of the accumulated value of the life annuity or annuity during the accumulation period.
Renewal clause
Clause in a temporary life insurance policy that grants its holder the right, within specific limits, to renew the insurance coverage at the end of the specified period without need for proof of insurability.