UnumProvident ups disability cover.
UnumProvident has enhanced its critical illness and individual short-term disability insurance products. The CI product's base coverage pays benefits for heart attack, stroke, permanent paralysis, kidney failure kidney failure
or renal failure
Partial or complete loss of kidney function. Acute failure causes reduced urine output and blood chemical imbalance, including uremia. Most patients recover within six weeks. , organ transplant organ transplant: see transplantation, medical. or coronary-artery bypass surgery Bypass surgery
A surgical procedure that grafts blood vessels onto arteries to reroute the blood flow around blockages in the arteries (arteriosclerosis). . The enhanced coverage pays an additional benefit upon diagnosis of cancer. A new five-year benefit period tops the list of enhancements to the disability product. A new optional rider covers mental illness.
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