The Observer: Critical illness insurance is 'life-changing'

‘A no-brainer’, says 47-year-old

Adam Saville
clock • 1 min read

Sunday broadsheet tells story of Glenn Charles who was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus

The Observer yesterday ran an article carrying the headline ‘Serious illness cover - the one insurance policy that can prove absolutely critical'. The UK national broadsheet shared the real-life experience of Glenn Charles, who helps run a family home baking business in County Fermanagh. He was diagnosed with cancer the oesophagus in January 2018, but was able to claim on his £100-a-month joint critical illness (CI) policy he took out ten year's prior for him and his wife. The pay-out allowed him to clear his mortgage and the money was in their account ‘within five weeks', the newspap...

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