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The system in which the severity of an illness can alter the pay out. How insurance companies are creating new policies which offer limited pay outs.

Finding out that you are suffering from  cancer is shattering news. At some phase inour lives, one in three of the population will become infected with the disease. It is not  that BUPA noticed that of all diseases, cancer gives British people the greatest fear.

At this arduous time you would expect an instantaneous settlement by your medical insurers, enabling you to concentrate on getting well. Unfortunately you could receive a big shock. Most cancer patients make a complete recovery with thanks to progression in medical science. Currently some cases are still not seen as severe, so it is worrying to learn that lots ofmedical and life insurance plans only pay up when your condition is terminal or life threatening.

An independent financial adviser, warns that people must not presume that they will receive a pay out just because they have been diagnosed with a  serious illness. He advises people not to think about the cost alone when taking out an insurance policy, but to check the small print in a private health or critical illness plan to certify that the company will pay you when you need it most.

On the diagnosis of  a precise illness, critical illness cover will pay out a lump sum. Whereas, you will receive superior quality and rapidity of treatment with private medical/health insurance. Such as, appropriate licensed drugs maybe offered, which are not given out on the National Health Service. A spokesperson of independent advice firm Direct Life and Pensions says about 18 per cent of claims fall short on protection policies and at least for serious conditions and diseases. Then again some cancers sound much worse than they are and in these cases you more than likely won’t get any money from traditional policies.

At one time insurers had an all or nothing attitude, but they are now starting to give policies with a full or partial payout. An illustration of this is PruProtect, an alternative critical illness policy from the Prudential, which connects the size of the pay out to the gravity of the condition and how much anguish it will cause. This policy does not turn out to be null and void once a demand is made but subsequent settlements may be decreasedconsiderably. This feature is intensely important when the patient is diagnosed with a stage-one or stage-two cancer, which could become even more severe.

Recently the insurance industry dealt with the difficult issue of customer non-disclosure. The Association of British Insurers has brokered a new deal, which will allow claims effected by non-disclosure to get a full or partial pay out, which was not the case previously.