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Great Eastern Critical Illness

Great Eastern Critical Illness

Great Eastern Critical Illness

Critical Illness Group Insurance Plan

Great Eastern Critical Illness is designed to provide a financial net for the insured member that is suddenly diagnosed with a critical illness. As well as additional medical coverage for the employee benefit package insurance.

This is only applicable with Group Accelerated Living Assurance optional rider. It is part of Great Eastern employee benefit group insurance, Great Bizcare insurance plan.


Click the button below to contact Great Eastern Insurance Agent Colin Chow, to answer your questions on this insurance plan.


Or send in enquiry. We will contact you to create the best insurance quotations to fit your employee benefits plan needs.


Great Eastern Great Bizcare (GBC) Group Insurance Plan

Great Eastern Critical Illness

Critical Illness Insurance rider from Great Eastern provides financial protection when the insured member is diagnosed with specificied critical illness. Or with one of the condition in the predetermined list.

In the event of the employee is being diagnosed with critical illness, Great Eastern will give the rider sum assured in one lump sum to the beneficiaries. Except for Angioplasty and other invasive treatments for coronary artery disease.

Great Eastern Critical Illness for group insurance is available in Great Eastern BizCare (GBC) insurance plan.

Great Eastern 36 Critical Illness

See the table below for the list of 36 critical illnesses covered under the Great Eastern Group Accelerated Living Assurance optional rider.

NoCovered Event
1Alzheimer’s Disease/Severe Dementia
2Angioplasty and other invasive treatment for coronary artery disease
3Angioplasty and other invasive treatments for coronary artery disease
4Benign Brain Tumor – of specified severity
5Blindness – Permanent and Irreversible
6Brain Surgery
7Cancer- of specified severity and does not cover very early cancers
8Cardiomyopathy – of specified severity
9Chronic Aplastic Anemia – resulting in Permanent Bone Marrow Failure
10Coma – resulting in Permanent Neurological deficit with persisting clinical symptoms
11Coronary Artery By-Pass Surgery
12Deafness- Permanent and Irreversible
13Encephalitis – resulting in Permanent inability to perform Activities of Daily Living
14End-Stage Liver Failure
15End-Stage Lung Disease
16Full Blown AIDS
17Fulminant Viral Hepatitis
18Heart Attack – of specified severity
19Heart Valve Surgery
20HIV Infection Due to Blood Transfusion
21Kidney Failure – requiring dialysis or kidney transplant
22Loss of Independent Existence
23Loss of Speech
24Major Head Trauma-resulting in Permanent inability to perform Activities of Daily Living
25Major Organ/Bone Marrow Transplant
26Motor Neuron Disease-Permanent neurological deficit with persisting clinical symptoms
27Multiple Sclerosis
28Muscular Dystrophy
29Paralysis of Limbs
30Parkinson’s Disease – resulting in Permanent inability to perform Activities of Daily Living
31Primary Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-of specified severity
32Serious Coronary Artery Disease
33Stroke- resulting in Permanent neurological deficit with persisting clinical symptoms
34Surgery to Aorta
35Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Severe Kidney Complications
36Third Degree Burns – of specified severity

Great Eastern Critical Illness Exclusions

Like other insurance companies, there are certain limitations in Great Eastern Critical Illness insurance plan coverage. There are certain conditions where they will not provide a payout to the beneficiaries.

For example, Great Eastern shall not be liable for any Covered Events under List A if the insured member has previously been diagnosed with or has undergone surgery for a corresponding Covered Event specified under List B.

To know more about the exclusion, see the Covered Event stated under List A in the table below.

List AList B
1Any of the following:
(a) Cancer of specified severity and does not cover very early cancers;
(b) Heart Attack-of specified severity
(c) Stroke – resulting in Permanent neurological deficit with persisting clinical symptoms;
(d) Kidney Failure-requiring dialysis or kidney transplant
(e) Fulminant Viral Hepatitis;
(f) Coronary Artery By-Pass Surgery
(g) Major Organ/Bone Marrow Transplant
(h) Angioplasty and other invasive treatments for coronary artery disease; or
(i)Cardiomyopathy – of specified severity
Any of the Covered Events or an illness that may lead to the Covered Events set out in item (1) of List A, which shall be determined accordingly.
2Coronar Artery By-Pass SurgeryHeart Attack – of specified severity
3Heart Attach – of specified severityCoronary Attack – of specified severity
4Coronary Artery By-Pass Surgery or Heart Attack – of specified severityHeart Transplant or Angioplasty and other invasive treatments for coronary artery disease or Cardiomyopathy – of specified severity
5Heart Transplant or Angioplasty and other invasive treatments for coronary artery disease or Cardiomyopathy – of specified severityCoronary Artery By-Pass Surgery or Heart Attack-of specified severity
6Fulminant Viral HepatitisLiver Transplant
7End-Stage Liver FailureLiver Transplant

Critical Illness Insurance Plan from Insurance Companies

The definition of “Critical Illness” might be vary and different depending on the insurance companies.

For further information on Critical Insurance plan and coverage from different insurance companies in Malaysia, click on the links below:

Learn More On Great Eastern Critical Illness

To learn more about the benefit and coverage of Great Eastern Critical Illness for different group insurance plans, get in touch with Red Cover expert Great Eastern insurance agent.

Contact Great Eastern Insurance Agent for Group Insurance

Colin Chow has more than 10 years of working experience in managing Group and Life insurance plans. He can work with you to create the best plan to meet your employee benefits program and group insurance budget plans.

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