Prudential Singapore rolls out insurance product for critical illness

‘PRUtriple protect’ offers a payout as high as $6.74m.

Prudential Singapore unveiled a standalone insurance term product offering a payout as high as $6.74m (S$9m) for a total of 36 critical illnesses including cancer. 

‘PRUtriple protect’ promises protection of up to three times the basic coverage. The plan also has a feature restoring the basic coverage to the original amount after a claim has been made.

If customers are diagnosed with a different critical illness twelve months after the last claim, they remain covered under the plan until three times of the plan’s basic coverage has been utilised.

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“With PRUtriple protect, our customers can have peace of mind knowing that they would be able to meet their financial commitments and maintain their lifestyle needs when recovering from a health crisis,” said Prudential Singapore head of protection Theresa Wu.

“Such protection is important as we know the chances of one recovering from a critical illness has become higher with the advent of medical technology.”

PRUtriple protect also offers an optional rider, Early Protector, to provide coverage for pre-critical stages of a critical illnesses of up to 106 medical conditions.