The leading private life insurance company - Max New York Life Insurance Company Ltd. has launched ‘lifeline’ - a health insurance product on Wednesday, 5th March 2008, across India. Now, the company can boast of offering complete health and life insurance products across ll regions in India.

This newly launched health insurance product of Max New York Life Insurance Company offers three groups of heath insurance solutions.

The Director Marketing Product Management and Corporate Affairs of Max New York Life Insurance said that these three distinct heath insurance products are meant to cover eventualities like hospitalization, surgery and critical illness of the insured.

He points out that these plans have been structured with features like

• Coverage for a wide range of ailments,
• No claim discount on revised premium for a healthy life,
• A fixed premium for a five-year term,
• Free second opinion from the best health care institutions of India on detection of illness.
• Further, it also has provision for a free telephonic medical help line across India.

The hospitalization - is covered by “Medicash plan”, which is meant to provide a fixed amount of cash benefit on a day-to-day basis during the entire period of hospitalization of the insured.

The Medicash plan would also cover expenses for admission in ICU, lump sum benefits against an unlimited number of surgeries and recuperation benefits.

The second plan of the newly launched health insurance of Max New York Life Insurance, is the “Wellness Plan”, which is a more attractive one and covers ‘critical illness’ like cancer, alzheimers, heart ailments, liver disease, deafness, permanent disability, etc. The Wellness plan covers thirty eight critical illnesses, which is the highest number of illness covered under one insurance plan in India by any insurance company.

The third health insurance policy of Max New York Life Insurance is a term plus health protection plan known as “Safety Net”.

This provides coverage to the insured person for any losses incurred by him/her in eventualities like critical illness, accident, disability and death.

With 21 lakh life insurance policies and with an assured sum of Rs 62,000 crores in its kitty Max Life Insurance wishes to achieve business at least five percent higher than it did in the last financial year.