LV= defends critical illness changes

‘Market-leading’

Adam Saville
clock • 2 min read

Benign brain tumour definition amendment designed to 'reflect future diagnostic trends'

Earlier today we published CIExpert analysis of LV='s most recent updates to its critical illness (CI) proposition. CIExpert director Alan Lakey described the changes - to three full payment conditions and one additional payment condition - as "minor", highlighting that while wordings around third degree burns had improved, its return to an "inferior" benign brain tumour condition amendment will "reduce claim potential". He also suggested that a lack of significant improvements in recent years had seen LV= "drifting down the critical illness quality table". Read the CIExpert analys...

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