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Protecting Your Family From The Effects Of Illness And Disability

  • By Design Team
  • 19 Mar, 2017
If you had an accident or illness that affected your ability to earn, what would happen to your partner, children, home and lifestyle?

Protecting your ability to earn income

Temporary disablement due to sickness or accident is a risk that can touch many lives. Income Protection safeguards your power to earn.

Coping financially with a serious illness

From stroke and heart attack to cancer and kidney disease, serious illness can occur without warning and require major changes in family life. Trauma Insurance helps to keep your family finances in good health while you recover.

Maintaining your family’s lifestyle in the face of total permanent disablement

Nobody likes to think about the prospect of long-term illness or disability, but for 29% of New Zealanders this will be a reality. Total Permanent Disablement (TPD) cover provides a lump sum that can be used in any way you wish to help secure your family's future.

The effects of illness and disability on your business

Every business owner needs to think about the short and long-term effects of illness and disabilty. Well-chosen insurance can enable your business to emerge unscathed from troubled times.

Want to know more?

If you would like to review your personal insurance protection, talk to your adviser or call Quadrant Today on 

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However, if you have only basic life cover, you are leaving yourself uninsured for other events that could be just as devastating to your family financially. 

For example, what if you were to suffer a stroke, heart attack or cancer, and survive - but not be able to work ever again?

Quadrant has a whole range of insurance products designed to alleviate the financial stress on you and your family. We all need to reconsider our insurance needs from time to time, especially at pivotal times in our lives, such as marriage, starting a family, buying a house or becoming self-employed.

It's also important to take account of the escalating costs of medical treatment and rehabilitation, and the amount you might realistically need to properly recover from serious illness or injury, and provide for your family.

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