Guardian offers reassurance for NHS workers

During COVID-19

Adam Saville
clock • 2 min read

Front line worker applications that answer ‘yes’ to ‘direct contact’ COVID-19 question will not be restricted

Earlier this month, Guardian announced it had added four COVID-19 questions to its underwriting process for life and critical illness (CI) and increased its non-medical limits by 10%. All applications for cover above these limits will be restricted to the maximum cover available, based on the applicant's age. As part of this, the insurer has since offered reassurance to key workers, such as frontline NHS staff, applying for cover. It said: "We recently added four new COVID-19 questions to our application. If a key worker answers ‘yes' to confirm they've been in direct contact with som...

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