Life & Critical Illness Blog

The Definition of Cancer For Critical Illness Policies

One of the main reasons people take out critical illness insurance is for the fact that cancer is covered.  Cancer is a big illness to cover under a critical illness policy and you don’t have to go far before you find lots of stories on the internet where people have had their cliams for cancer [...]

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Cancer Insurance Instead Of Critical Illness Insurance

Critical Illness cover has always been a complex product to the UK market.  The ABI offers a standard definition list which  most of the critical illness insurance providers subscribe to but then these providers can also offer their own definitions and illnesses in addition to the ABI list too.  This is what leads to confusion in [...]

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When NOT To Buy Critical Illness Cover

There are plenty of sites on the internet recommending critical illness cover but is there an instance when critical illness cover is not worth having?  This depends on your own personal circumstances and views. When Cancer Research state that everyone has a 1 in 3 chance of being diagnosed with some form of cancer at some [...]

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Will Jade Goody Die On Film?

A lot has been written about Jade Goody’s cancer battle but one of the topics most papers have a problem with is the possibility of Jade Goody’s eventual death being filmed in the name of entertainment. Jade Goody has done wonders for cancer awareness but this would probably be a step too far and could potentially [...]

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Jade Goody’s Cancer

Jade Goody got married today.  She has only weeks to live and she has been in the papers everyday for the last few weeks.  Some of the papers are saying that her story should be a private one that isn’t broadcast as it is bad taste to document someones death for the purposes of entertainment. Since [...]

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