CASE STUDY: Arranging life cover for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

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Kathryn Knowles discusses the case of two clients who approached Cura seeking mortgage protection

Erica and Suzie* came to us because they needed some protection in place to cover their mortgage. They were both non-smokers with perfect BMIs. We arranged insurances for them both, but Erica had been diagnosed with classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) as a child, so needed more specialist consideration when looking for the right insurer, and this is what my video focuses on. Watch it below.  Erica, who was in her early 40s, only had a very small physical trait of EDS. She wasn't symptomatic at all and had been diagnosis as a child. Interestingly, she has to have medicals every year fo...

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