Eligible Spouses and Domestic Partners

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	Business Travel Accident Insurance Plan

	The Plan at a Glance

	Participating in the Plan

		Eligible Employees

		Eligible Spouses and Domestic Partners

		Eligible Children

		Enrollment

		Cost of Coverage

		When Coverage Begins

		When Coverage Ends

		Beneficiaries

	How the Plan Works

	What Is Not Covered

	How Benefits Are Paid

	Filing a Claim

	Glossary

Eligible Spouses and Domestic Partners

Under the Business Travel Accident Insurance Plan, coverage is provided to your spouse, children, approved domestic partner and children of an approved domestic partner if they are approved to accompany you while traveling on Company business or relocation trips that are paid for by the Company.

An eligible spouse is:

your legally married spouse

approved to travel with you on Company business or relocation travel.

You can cover your approved same gender or opposite gender approved domestic partner.

To obtain spousal or domestic partner coverage, you will need to complete an Affidavit of Eligible Family Membership via MMC Benefits Online declaring that:

Spouse / Domestic Partner

You have already received a marriage license from a U.S. state or local authority, or registered your domestic partnership with a U.S. state or local authority; or

Spouse Only

Although not registered with a U.S. state or local authority, your relationship constitutes a marriage under U.S. state or local law (e.g. common law marriage or a marriage outside the U.S. that is honored under U.S. state or local law).

Domestic Partner Only

Although not registered with a U.S. state or local authority, your relationship constitutes an eligible domestic partnership. To establish that your relationship constitutes an eligible domestic partnership you and your domestic partner must:

be at least 18 years old

not be legally married, under federal law, to each other or anyone else or part of another domestic partnership during the previous 12 months

currently be in an exclusive, committed relationship with each other that has existed for at least 12 months and is intended to be permanent

not be Medicare eligible

currently reside together, and have resided together for at least the previous 12 months, and intend to do so permanently, and

have agreed to share responsibility for each other's common welfare and basic financial obligations

not related by blood to a degree of closeness that would prohibit marriage under applicable state law.

MMC reserves the right to require documentary proof of your domestic partnership at any time, for the purpose of determining benefits eligibility. If requested, you must provide documents verifying either the registration of your domestic partnership with a state or local authority or your cohabitation and/or mutual commitment.

Once your Affidavit of Eligible Family Membership is completed and processed, you may cover the dependent child(ren) of your spouse or domestic partner.