(A) Health care coverage will be provided for the surviving spouse and eligible dependents, as listed at the time of death, of an employee who loses his or her life as the result of accidental bodily injuries caused solely by employment with the city and which results solely from an accident in which the cause and result are unexpected and definite as to time and place.
(B) Such coverage for surviving spouse shall terminate upon the remarriage or death of the surviving spouse. Coverage in effect for eligible dependents at the time a surviving spouse dies or remarries may be continued until such eligible dependents cease to qualify as such. In the case of death of the surviving spouse, the employee's share of the cost of the health care coverage shall be paid by the guardian or other responsible person who has care and custody of said eligible dependents. Should said guardian or custodial care giver elect not to pay said employee's share, coverage will terminate.
(C) Eligible dependents shall be defined in the same manner and using the same definition that is in use by the health insurance carrier at the time of the death of the employee.
(D) The surviving spouse cannot add dependents and eligible dependents cannot add dependents.
(E) Continuation of health insurance benefits shall be at the level provided for active employees and as may be modified after the date of death for such active employees and as may be modified after death for active employees.
(F) The intent of this section is to continue to provide health insurance coverage to the surviving spouse and eligible dependents as if the job-related accidental death of the employee had not occurred and the deceased employee had continued to work for the city in the same manner or similar capacity as performed on the date of death.
(Ord. 3155, passed 5-18-98)