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28: Life Insurance

28.1 Nurses shall be covered by life insurance and accidental death insurance as follows:

The County shall provide twenty thousand dollars ($ 20,000) of life insurance for each nurse, five hundred dollars ($500) of life insurance for the nurse’s spouse and up to a maximum of five hundred dollars ($500) of life insurance for each of the nurse’s children depending on ages. The County shall provide an additional ten thousand dollars ($10,000) of life insurance payable to the nurse’s beneficiary if the nurse’s death results from an accident either on or off the job.

28.2 Nurses, depending on pre-qualification, may purchase additional term life insurance to a maximum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for employee, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) for spouse, and ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for dependents.