Dentists' Provident pays out £5.4 million during 2021

The mutual, which provides income protection cover for the UK dental industry, paid out on 1,190 claims throughout last year, representing 98.9% of all claims received. The annual total was a decrease of 9% on total pay outs of £5.95 million in 2020. The provider noted that the 1.1% of claims not paid were because "claimants did not meet the definition of incapacity, their condition was not covered by the plan, they did not provide all the information required to assess the claim or the plan conditions were not met." The most common reason for a claim among men were for "psychiatri...