Organ failure

Major Organ Transplant — NZ Trauma Cover

Receipt of a major organ transplant (heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, or bone marrow) is a full-payout condition. Some policies include placement on the transplant waiting list as a triggering event.

5 active trauma products from 5 insurers · 4 matrix cells on file

How every NZ trauma policy handles this

Each cell shows the payout status for Major Organ Transplant under that product, with the verbatim definition + qualifier below. "Not on file" means the cell has not yet been extracted from that insurer's published wording.

Insurer Product Payout Wording effective
LifeOne Critical Illness Benefit Not on file 2026-05-17
LifeProtect Trauma Cover Full payout Actual transplant or official waiting list for kidney, heart, lung, liver, pancreas, small bowel, bone marrow or blood-forming stem cell 2025-04-30
AIA Living Critical Conditions Cover Full payout 2026-05-18
Asteron Life Trauma Recovery Cover Full payout Brochure 90-day stand-down 2025-05-22
YouChoose Trauma Cover Full payout Brochure 2025-10-08

Verbatim definitions per insurer

The exact text from each policy wording — no editorial gloss. Source PDF cited below each block.

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Chubb Life NZ

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LifeOne Critical Illness Benefit

Wording effective 2026-05-17 · confidence verified

No verbatim definition extracted for this condition on this product yet.

Source: https://www.chubb.com/content/dam/chubb-sites/chubb/nz-en/life/documents/cig0276-life-one-policy-wording-v1.pdf

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Fidelity Life

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LifeProtect Trauma Cover

Wording effective 2025-04-30 · confidence verified

The actual transplant, or placement on an official waiting list of a Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand recognised transplant unit, of one or more of the following organs or tissues: Kidney, Heart, Lung, Liver (including live donor liver transplants), Pancreas, Small bowel, Bone marrow, Blood-forming stem cell transplant.
Related exclusions (1)
  • Major organ transplant: transplant of all other organs, parts of organs (except for liver transplant) or any other tissue transplant is excluded; cover is only applicable to the recipient, not the donor.

Source: https://www.fidelitylife.co.nz/media/bpbdqczq/life-protect-trauma-cover-policy-wording.pdf

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AIA New Zealand

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AIA Living Critical Conditions Cover

Wording effective 2026-05-18 · confidence verified

Major transplant surgery [marked in table as Full payment, no stand down period]

Source: https://www.aia.co.nz/content/dam/nz/en/docs/our-products/policy-wordings/aia-living/personal/aia-living-personal-critical-conditions-policy-wording.pdf

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Asteron Life

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Asteron Life Trauma Recovery Cover

Wording effective 2025-05-22 · confidence brochure

Major organ transplant (placement on waiting list or undergoing transplant) (marked ** in table). Conditions marked ** require 3 months stand-down after the latest of the date we receive a fully completed application.

⚠ Source: insurer brochure (not the full policy wording). The wording contains the medical definition with clinical thresholds — request it from your adviser before claim decisions.

⚠ Source document dated 2025-05-22 — older than 12 months. Confirm currency with the insurer.

Source: https://www.asteronlife.co.nz/sites/default/files/documents/trauma-recovery-brochure.pdf

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Partners Life

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YouChoose Trauma Cover

Wording effective 2025-10-08 · confidence brochure

Organ Transplant — Pays 100% of your sum insured.

⚠ Source: insurer brochure (not the full policy wording). The wording contains the medical definition with clinical thresholds — request it from your adviser before claim decisions.

Source: https://assets.ctfassets.net/w9dpej1et86g/FCLVyj79BiyvbQRKl0fDD/bfe3409e154a4074cd3482036f1b11ba/PLJP_OVERVIEW_TRAUMA_V01_1025.pdf

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