Insurance Asia Awards recognises SupremeHealth Max of HNB Assurance as ‘Health Insurance Initiative of the Year’

HNBA and HNBGI Chief Executive Officer Prasantha Fernando

HNBA Chief Operating Officer Lasitha Wimalaratne

The prestigious Insurance Asia Magazine recognised HNB Assurance at the 2021 Insurance Asia Awards as the Health Insurance Initiative – Sri Lanka for SupremeHealth Max. These awards recognises the most outstanding insurance companies in Asia. Published bi-annually, Insurance Asia is a publication that is devoted to insurance companies, investors and policy makers. 

SupremeHealth Max is another unique product which could be obtained along with various life policies offered by the Company. With this latest addition, customers have access to the best medical and surgical facilities both here and overseas. 

SupremeHealth Max includes a worldwide hospitalisation cover of up to Rs. 50 million annually for individuals and families, worldwide cashless claim settlement, no claim bonus of up to 100%, pre and post hospitalisation expenses benefit and a restore benefit entitling the policyholder to a 100% of sum assured even in the event that he or she has already claimed the entire sum assured during a year due to hospitalisation, provided that the subsequent hospitalisation is not related to the reasons of hospitalisation before. Moreover, it consists of a number of benefits including optical, dental, maternity, surgical, health screening as well as cash benefit for hospitalisation in Government hospitals. 

SupremeHealth Max also consists of an OPD cover and is applicable for Ayurvedic treatments and cover expenses related to chemotherapy, dialysis and radiology treatments within the cover limit, whilst covering costs of prosthesis and implants, and organ donor expenses within the cover limit.

Sharing his thoughts, HNBA and its fully owned subsidiary HNB General Insurance Ltd. (HNBGI) Chief Executive Officer Prasantha Fernando stated: “SupremeHealth Max is a well-curated product offering an array of benefits and addressing a vastly changing need, that is health. This special product has been developed considering several vital factors which people face in obtaining healthcare services on a regular basis. Being recognised as the ‘Health Insurance Initiative of the Year’ is a very significant milestone to all of us at HNBA and reaffirms the quality of this product and augurs well of its benefits and features. HNBA, through this product and other similar products has in earnest made headway into the health insurance market in Sri Lanka. Positioned as the ‘best health insurance for me,’ this product offers people the possibility to have a comprehensive health cover that they can customise based on their requirement. Whilst thanking Insurance Asia Awards for this accolade, I wish to reiterate that as a brand focused on providing the utmost financial protection to our policyholders and their loved ones, we will continue to strengthen our resolve of putting our customer needs first by offering products to suit their every need and thereby delivering value and a pleasant customer experience.”

HNBA Chief Operating Officer Lasitha Wimalaratne stated: “We understood the challenges faced by people today in obtaining access to the best healthcare solutions both here and overseas due to various financial restrictions; SupremeHealth Max is the solution we offer them. This special product has been designed to overcome all those financial limitations and restrictions, ensuring the best healthcare solutions to all our policyholders and their loved one, whenever, wherever. Since its launch last year, we have seen an increasing demand for it and is a well sought-after product in our portfolio and has surely become a gamechanger for us. SupremeHealth Max being recognised as the ‘Best Health Insurance Initiative of the Year’ by an international awarding body in the calibre of Insurance Asia Awards is indeed a great honour and I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to the team behind this revolutionary product.”

HNB Assurance PLC (HNBA) is one of the fastest growing insurance companies in Sri Lanka with a network of 63 branches. HNBA is a life insurance company with a rating of A+ (lka) by Fitch Ratings Lanka for ‘National Insurer Financial Strength Rating’. Following the introduction of the segregation rules by the Insurance Regulator, HNB General Insurance Ltd. (HNBGI) was created and commenced its operations in January 2015; HNBGI continues to specialise in motor, non-motor and Takaful insurance solutions and is a fully owned subsidiary of HNB Assurance PLC. 

HNB General Insurance has been assigned a ‘National Insurer Financial Strength Rating’ of ‘A+’ (lka) by Fitch Ratings Lanka Ltd. HNBA is rated within the Top 100 brands and Top 100 companies in Sri Lanka by LMD and HNB Assurance has won international awards for Brand Excellence, Digital Marketing and HR Excellence including the Great Place To Work Certification, and won many awards for its Annual Reports at award ceremonies organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka.