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Things You May Not Know About Trauma Cover

  • The average age of a Trauma policy payout is just 47
  • 51 people per day are diagnosed with cancer in NZ*
  • 57% of adults diagnosed with cancer will survive up to 10 years**
  • 21 Kiwi’s a day have a stroke – 25% of whom are under 65***
  • 10,0000 Kiwis suffer heart attacks every year – approx. 35% of those are aged under 40
  • 40% of working adults face critical illness before age 65 (Cologne Reinsurance March 1992)

*Cancer Society of New Zealand. Sourced March 2011.

**Ministry of Health December 2010.

***Stroke Foundation of New Zealand. Sourced March 2011.