Old Mutual opens life cover application to heart disease and diabetes sufferers

Adam Saville
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Combination is a common one that industry typically declines

Old Mutual Wealth, part of Quilter, has adapted its underwriting process so that customers with both heart disease or cerebrovascular disease (e.g stroke) and diabetes will be now be considered for life cover.  In the past any customer with those combinations would have been denied at application stage, however cover is now available as guaranteed whole of life as well as rolling term and fixed term plans. "Making sure your loved ones are looked after when you pass away is high on everyone's wish list, which is why more should be done to help people who face restrictions to securing t...

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