Estate Guidance®

If you are an active/retired employee and enrolled in Optional Life Insurance from The Hartford sponsored by the Group Insurance Commission, you now have an additional service you can take advantage of today.  Estate Guidance helps you create a legal will quickly and conveniently online with the support of licensed attorneys, if needed.  The service saves you the time and expense that it would take to create a will with a private attorney.

For more information:

  1. To learn more about the Estate Guidance service or to create a will go to the Estate Guidance website.
  2. Enter your promotional Code:  WILLHLF

Estate Guidance services are provided through The Hartford by ComPsych.

Travel Assist

When you’re traveling, emergencies can happen.  How, help is only a phone call away for employees covered under the Group Insurance Commissioner’s group policy through The Hartford.

Toll-free emergency assistance is available to you, and your family 24 hours a day, seven days a week when traveling 100 miles or more from your primary home (national or international travel) for 90 days or less.  In addition to emergency services, you have access to a wide range of pre-trip informational services.  Multilingual service professionals stand ready to assist you before and during travel to over 200 countries worldwide.

What services are provided?

Pre-Trip Information

  1. VISA, Passport, inoculation and
    immunization requirements.
  2. Embassy and consular referrals.
  3. Travel advisories.

Emergency Medical Assistance

  1. Medical referrals.
  2. Medical monitoring.
  3. Medical evacuation
  4. Medical repatriation (return home)
  5. Return of traveling companion
  6. Return of dependent children.
  7. Visit from family member or friend.
  8. Emergency medical payments.
  9. Repatriation of remains.
  10. Replacement of medication and sunglasses.

Emergency Personal Services

  1. Sending and receiving messages.
  2. Emergency travel arrangements.
  3. Legal assistance/bail.

Funeral Planning Services

Your life insurance policy entitles you to expert advice, assistance and services from the first nationwide funeral planning and concierge service—Everest.³  With Everest, you can plan a funeral ahead of time, making your wishes known to remove family uncertainty and doubt.  At or near the time of death, Everest acts as a family advocate, providing as much personal assistance as your family desires.

Services provided include:

  1. Unlimited use of online planning, research and tools, such as “My wishes” planning Guide and PriceFinder Research Reports—the only nationwide database of funeral home prices.
  2. Concierge services from licensed funeral directors who document your family’s wishes and put that plan into action.
  3. Negotiation of the funeral costs, often resulting in significant financial savings.

To learn more about the Everest services, please call 866-854-5429 or visit the Hartford Life Conversations website.

The first time you access Everest Funeral Planning services, you’ll need the Everest Funeral Planning Access Code:  HFEHLF.

Beneficiary Assist®

To help you or a loved one cope with the emotional, financial, and legal issues that can arise after a loss, The Hartford offers you access to Beneficiary Assist®.

Services provided include:

  1. Assessment and action planning to help develop an individualized course of action.
  2. Unlimited phone contact to grief counselors and financial and legal advisors for up to a year from the date the claim is approved.
  3. Up to five face-to-face sessions, or equivalent professional time for any combination of emotional counseling, financial planning, or legal advice.
  4. Referrals to additional resources outside the Beneficiary Assist service to support specific situations, such as long-term grief counseling, complex probate or estate planning and relocation.

  5. Beneficiary Assist services are available to:

    • The beneficiary of an insured who dies
    • Insureds who qualify for the Accelerated Death benefit
    • Insureds who qualify for benefits under the AD&D section of your policy

    Call the toll-free numbers, 1-800-411-7239, 24 hours per day, 7 days a week to access these services.

This information provided by the Group Insurance Commission.