Critical Illness Cover

Critical Illness insurance, also known as Trauma insurance, is designed to help employees, and their families manage financially, if they were to face serious illness or injury. It provides a lump sum payment for a range of defined medical conditions that can help cover whatever is needed, like taking care of medical treatment and rehabilitation costs, or mortgage payments and other household expenses, so an employee can focus on solely on recovery.

You can choose to provide Critical Illness cover either as a stand-alone benefit or add it as an accelerated benefit to Life Cover. Accelerated means that in the event a claim is paid under the Critical Illness benefit, the amount of Life Cover will reduce by the amount of the Critical Illness benefit paid.

Here's an overview of the types of medical conditions your employees would be covered for:

  • Accidental HIV Infection
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Angioplasty (Triple Vessel)
  • Aplastic Anaemia
  • Benign Brain Tumour
  • Blindness
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Chronic Liver Disease / Failure
  • Chronic Lung Disease / Failure
  • Cognitive Impairment (Significant)
  • Coma
  • Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
  • Critical Cancer
  • Dementia
  • Encephalitis
  • Heart Attack
  • Heart Valve Surgery
  • Intensive Care Treatment
  • Kidney Failure
  • Loss of Independence
  • Loss of Use of Limbs / Sight of One Eye
  • Major Burns
  • Major Head Trauma
  • Major Organ Transplant
  • Meningitis / Meningococcal Disease
  • Motor Neurone Disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Muscular Dystrophy
  • Open Heart Surgery
  • Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest
  • Paralysis
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Peripheral Neuropathy
  • Permanent Loss of Hearing
  • Permanent Loss of Speech
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (Primary)
  • Stroke (Resulting in Functional Loss)
  • Surgery to Aorta

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Continuation Option

If an employee ceases employment and they're under 65 years of age, they can apply to transfer some or all of their cover into an equivalent retail policy without medical evidence and they may be provided with continued cover during the application period.

*Conditions apply