Legal & General is enhancing its critical illness (CI) product to include four new illnesses and wider definitions for eleven conditions.
The four new illnesses are: • Mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ - requiring total removal of the breast; • Multiple system atrophy - resulting in permanent symptoms; • Open heart surgery - with median sternotomy; • Removal of an eyeball - due to injury or disease. The provider says the mastectomy cover is the first time it has introduced a severity based cover, with an additional 25% of sum assured or £25,000 (whichever is lower) being available. It also says the eleven new definitions are over and above the ABI standard and are designed to highlight when a policy will and w...
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