Guardian: 'Simpler, broader definitions' for CIC and terminal illness

Adam Saville
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Gryphon Group Holdings targets protection disruption by removing exclusions for critical Illness and terminal illness

In January we announced that Gryphon Group Holdings planned to mount a challenge for UK protection business as Guardian, and today the first details of its offering have emerged. Hinged on the ethos of ‘life made better' for customers and advisers, Guardian has announced ‘simple, broader definitions with no general exclusions' for critical illness cover and teminal illness benefit within life cover. Critical illness For CIC, there are some key changes to the most common definitions. For stroke, rather than evidence in the form of a scan, if symptoms have lasted more than 24 hour...

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