{"id":13882,"date":"2019-03-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/tennessee-town-proposes-more-life-insurance-for-emergency-workers\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T06:00:00","slug":"tennessee-town-proposes-more-life-insurance-for-emergency-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/03\/10\/tennessee-town-proposes-more-life-insurance-for-emergency-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Town Proposes More Life Insurance For Emergency Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Putnam County could soon offer a more substantial life insurance policy for law enforcement and emergency personnel.<\/p>\n

“With all the deaths of law enforcement, paramedics and emergency personnel we have been seeing in the news lately, it made me take a hard look at what we do for ours in case of a line of duty death,” said County Mayor Randy Porter.<\/p>\n

In just the past four months in Tennessee, two police officers and one paramedic have been killed in job-related incidents. A Sullivan County deputy was shot while doing a welfare check at a home in Blountville, a Chattanooga police officer was hit by a car during a traffic stop, and a west Tennessee paramedic died in Nashville when the ambulance he was in hydroplaned and struck a wall.<\/p>\n

“The devastation a death like this would cause to the employee’s family would be unbelievable,” Porter said.<\/p>\n

He said the county currently provides a $15,000 life insurance policy on each county employee, but said he would like to increase that.<\/p>\n

“I am proposing we add a $250,000 life policy to all our full-time sheriff, EMS, fire and EMA department personnel,” he said. “The cost to do this is $19,090 per year to cover those 270 employees, which I think is very reasonable for what it would provide for an employee’s family.”<\/p>\n

He said the annual cost would come from the county’s self-insurance fund.<\/p>\n

The proposal will be discussed by the Fiscal Review Committee when it meets Monday.<\/p>\n

The committee will also talk about the possibility of having the county self-fund its medical insurance for employees.<\/p>\n

“With the continual increase in medical insurance costs, I have been looking at the county going back to being self-funded on our medical insurance the way we are on all our other county insurance,” Porter said. “The savings could be large.”<\/p>\n

Porter said he would give commissioners an overview of the options at this month’s meeting and bring the proposal back for a vote next month, once he has “final numbers.”<\/p>\n

The committee meetings begin at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the county courthouse.<\/p>\n

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