The Insurance
For Professional Aircrew
Income Protection
If you were to suffer a serious illness or injury then your career could be at risk. For expatriate pilots, this risk also extends to families through every aspect of expatriate life including housing, children's education, medical cover and even the ability to stay in Hong Kong. TopCover has been designed to provide a secure, stable monthly income to enable you to have sufficient time to deal with any medical condition and to plan for the future. Its primary aim is to provide you with time to deal with your situation, without financial distress. Personal Accident and Critical Illness benefits can also provide immediate cash lump sums, even when you are in the early stages of your disability and still employed by your company. By providing financial security, pilots with TopCover are often able to return to flying - either with their current company, or with a new employer in the future, once the medical problem has been resolved.
Personal Accident
TopCover offers up to US$500,000 in Personal Accident insurance for each insured person. Every employer offers some kind of Personal Accident insurance to all their staff. There are often limitation on that cover. TopCover offers worldwide, 24 hour protection with very few exclusions to the cover. This means that wherever you travel, whether on or off duty, you can be sure that you and your family are protected.
Critical Illness
TopCover was originally designed to protect a pilot's income. However, when a pilot is facing a life-threatening illness, or is approaching the maximum insurable age, income protection benefits become limited in their ability to help. Critical Illness cover provides a cash lump sum of up to $150,000 if you are diagnosed with one of eleven serious medical conditions. In addition, for pilots, the policy will pay a benefit for any medical condition that permanently prevents you from flying. It is Critical Illness for pilots. A cash lump sum may assist with medical bills, or be used for any reason you see fit. If you recover and return to flying following a medical problem, there is no penalty or repayment required. Critical illness is now also available for spouses, but without the special clause for permanent disability to fly of course.
My income protection claim was approved and payments began just as they said it would. Now I'm back at work and would strongly advise my colleagues to sign up with TopCover