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Protección para empresas

Seguro de vida colectivo

Un capital único, normalmente un múltiplo del salario, que se paga cuando un empleado fallece en activo: la prestación que los empleados nunca esperan usar y que sus familias siempre recuerdan.

Centro de Dublín

Para quién es

Empleadores y fiduciarios del plan

Qué hace

  • Regímenes registrados y exentos
  • Límite de cobertura sin formalidades, por debajo del cual no se exige prueba médica individual
  • Opción de pensión para dependientes junto con el capital
  • Apoyo psicológico en el duelo y línea de ayuda sucesoria incluidos

El producto en detalle

Group life is the benefit employees never expect to use and their families always remember. A lump sum, usually a multiple of salary, is paid when someone dies in service — and because it is a group arrangement, the great majority of the membership is covered without a single medical question being asked.

That last point is the free cover limit, and it is the feature brokers should lead on. The insurer sets a level of individual benefit below which no medical evidence is required; on a typical scheme that covers everyone except a handful of senior people whose salary multiple takes them above it. Those few are underwritten individually, and until they are, cover is generally provided up to the limit rather than not at all.

Registered and excepted arrangements are both available, and they are not interchangeable — the choice affects how the benefit is treated and who it can be paid to, and it belongs with the employer’s own advisers. A dependant’s pension can sit alongside the lump sum where the employer wants an income as well as capital.

Two services come with the policy rather than being sold beside it: bereavement counselling for the family, and a probate helpline. They are used far more often than the benefit itself is claimed, which is a fair description of what group cover really provides.

Documentación

La documentación de producto se facilita a los intermediarios acreditados. Pídala a su suscriptor o solicítela mediante el formulario de consulta.

  • Condiciones de la pólizaA petición
  • Plantilla de datos del planA petición
  • Carta de comunicación a los miembrosA petición

Cómo funciona

Qué ocurre, en orden

Desde la primera consulta hasta el momento en que la cobertura, el contrato o la línea queda en vigor.

  1. The employer supplies scheme data

    Membership, dates of birth, salaries and the benefit basis, on the scheme data template. The quality of this file decides the quality of the rate.

  2. A rate and a free cover limit are quoted

    The rate applies to the total sum assured; the free cover limit is the individual benefit below which no medical evidence is needed.

  3. Members above the limit are underwritten individually

    A small number on most schemes. Cover is generally available up to the free cover limit while that is in progress.

  4. The scheme goes on risk, with a two-year rate guarantee

    So the employer knows the cost for two renewals rather than one.

  5. Claims are paid to the trustees or under the arrangement

    With bereavement counselling and the probate helpline available to the family from the moment the death is notified.

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Las cifras

Un ejemplo resuelto

Cálculos ilustrativos, para que la forma del producto se vea en lugar de describirse. Nada de lo que aquí figura es una oferta ni una proyección.

A 120-member scheme at four times salary

Illustrative figures for a mid-sized employer. Group rates are quoted on the scheme’s own data, so this is a shape rather than a price.

Miembros
120
Total annual payroll
£5,400,000
Benefit basis
4× salary
Total sum assured
£21,600,000
Illustrative rate
0.35% of sum assured
Illustrative annual premium
£75,600
Illustrative cost per member per year
£630
Free cover limit set at quotation
£600,000
Members requiring individual medical evidenceThose whose salary × 4 exceeds £600,000
4
Garantía de tasa
2 years

Illustrative and not a quotation. The rate depends on the age profile, the occupations, the location of the membership and the claims history, and it is quoted on the scheme’s own data file.

What a free cover limit means for the membership

The illustrative 120-member scheme above, split by whether medical evidence is needed.

Members in the scheme

120

  • Covered with no medical evidence116 · 97%Individual benefit below the £600,000 free cover limit
  • Individually underwritten4 · 3%Above the limit — cover generally available up to it meanwhile
Illustrative. The proportion is the point: on most schemes underwriting is an exception handled for a handful of senior people, not a process the whole workforce goes through.
Ver estas cifras en una tabla
ImporteProporción
Covered with no medical evidence — Individual benefit below the £600,000 free cover limit11696.7%
Individually underwritten — Above the limit — cover generally available up to it meanwhile43.3%
Members in the scheme120100%

Idoneidad

Dónde encaja Seguro de vida colectivo

Los casos que resuelve, los que no, y lo que un suscriptor necesita antes de tarificar.

Es la respuesta adecuada cuando

  • Employers from three members upwards who want a death-in-service benefit.
  • Schemes that want most of the membership covered without medical evidence.
  • Employers who want a bereavement service for families, not only a payment.

Conviene mirar otra cosa cuando

  • Cover for absence rather than death — that is Group Income Protection.
  • A benefit paid on diagnosis — that is Group Critical Illness.

Lo que necesitamos para tarificar

  1. 1.The completed scheme data template: membership, dates of birth, salaries.
  2. 2.The benefit basis, and whether the arrangement is registered or excepted.
  3. 3.Existing scheme details and claims history, if the scheme is transferring.
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Preguntas

Lo que los corredores nos preguntan sobre este producto

What happens to a member above the free cover limit before underwriting completes?

Cover is generally provided up to the free cover limit in the meantime, rather than being withheld entirely. The exact position is set out in the policy conditions and is worth confirming for any scheme with several senior members.

Registered or excepted — which?

It changes how the benefit is treated and who it can be paid to. It is a decision for the employer and their own advisers; both arrangements are available and we do not push either.

Does the rate change if the membership changes?

The rate is guaranteed for two years. The premium moves with the sum assured, so joiners, leavers and salary reviews change what is paid even while the rate is fixed.

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Consúltenos sobre Seguro de vida colectivo

El formulario llega a un suscriptor en Dublín. Si es intermediario, indíquelo y lo dirigiremos a la mesa de corredores.

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