Standard Expands Basic Benefits Packages

Horizon Health Corp., Lewisville, Texas, will be running the EAP. The EAP will provide eligible LTD plan members with up to 3 in-person counseling sessions each year and an unlimited number of telephone consultations. The program also will provide legal and financial counseling.

MEDEX Assistance Corp., Towson, Md., will run the travel assistance program for group life plan members. The program will help insured employees and dependents cope with problems that crop up when they are more than 100 miles from home or in a foreign country.

The third new benefit, the air bag benefit, will pay extra benefits when an insured employee dies in an automobile accident even though the vehicle’s original air bag system deploys in an effort to protect the employee.