Salary Protection

John was a married man with two children, a career public servant, religious man and very keen sports lover - but a worrier about many things.

He decided to break out of the public service environment and became general manager of a law firm which was a great challenge for him to change the business culture existing in the law firm. John decided to build a new house for his family now that he had a more highly paid position.

From this point on, things started to go wrong for John. Firstly the builder who was along time friend of John's ran up a huge site excavation bill without John's knowledge. This totally blew John's building budget so the project took much longer than expected and cost much, much more than originally estimated. John had to draw the line at lock up stage without many of the niceties that he had planned.  To compound things, his law firm needed to retrench him due to a downturn in legal work.

Not too long after John rang Donnellys to report that he had cancer of the oesophagus, no doubt caused by his stressful house building project and retrenchment. We were able to confirm that John's Salary Protection policy was going to cover his living expenses up to his selected sum insured for a maximum of 2 years. John was so relieved to hear this news to know he could concentrate on his recovery without the additional burden of financial worry.

John eventually was given the all clear with his condition to his relief of course. However around 9 months later John called Donnellys again to say that he ha a new bout of cancer completely unrelated to the first instance. Due to the time break we were able to confirm that the policy would treat this new condition as a new claim and he would have another 2 year's maximum coverage. He was so thankful he had the foresight years ago to protect his income with his Salary Protection policy.

John decided not to undergo chemo and radio therapy the second time because of it's intrusive effects he experienced the first time. He decide to rely on his faith to overcome this second bout of cancer. He eventually lost his battle this time around. However in John's last weeks, Mike Donnelly visited his long time friend and his last words to Mike were: "when I beat this problem, I want to come and work for you to promote the benefits of your Salary Protection policy to everyone I know".

This is why Donnellys consider it‘s exclusive Salary Protection policy is the most important product that it offers to clients!

By telling his story on our website, we are proud to honour his wish to promote our product to others so they might have the same financial security he had to assist with his health recovery and the opportunity to arrange his affairs before the ultimate tragedy occurred.