British Friendly adds COVID-19 exclusion for all new policies

Claims to be honoured for existing members

Adam Saville
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Exclusion for COVID-19 added for all those applying for income protection after 14 March 2020

British Friendly has confirmed that it will honour all claims made by existing members as a result of being diagnosed with coronavirus (COVID-19) and it will also consider claims for those who have symptoms and self-isolating but not a diagnosis. However the mutual has added an exclusion for coronavirus for anyone applying for income protection (IP) from 14 March onwards. "This difficult decision was taken after very careful assessment of the situation," said British Friendly. "Our priority must be to protect our existing members by ensuring our society remains financially robust. We ...

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