Guardian lifts non-medical limits restrictions

And resumes F2F medicals

Adam Saville
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Guardian is now accepting business above non-medical limits, after temporarily restricting applications due to COVID-19

The insurer has also restarted face-to-face medicals, which, it said, have been booked in from next week via its partner Medical Screenings Solutons (MSS), which has a number of Covid-secure health and safety measures in place. Guardian said: "One of the impacts of COVID-19 was being unable to get the medical evidence we needed to underwrite some applications, which meant we had to restrict applications temporarily to below our non-medical limits. "From today we have lifted that restriction. We can now accept and underwrite applications above our non-medical limits for all our product...

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