Scottish Provident and Bright Grey have amended their critical illness products to include five new definitions and two reclassifications of conditions.
The providers are now offering additional cover for low grade prostate cancer and an early form of breast cancer known as ductal carinoma in situ (DCIS). Both these will receive a partial payment of £15,000 or 20% of the sum assured, whichever is the lower. Four of the five new definitions, the first two of which the insurers said are completely new to the critical illness market, are the same: Intensive care 10 days - any sickness or injury resulting in a person requiring continuous mechanical ventilation for 10 consecutive days or more, Pneumonectomy - the undergoing of surger...
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