Brain conditions including a stroke, multiple sclerosis (MS) and benign brain tumours, accounted for 14% of Aviva’s claims pay outs for critical illness (CI) in 2022.
The provider paid out over £1.07bn for claims across life insurance, CI, income protection (IP) and other individual protection policies last year. Aviva noted diseases that affect the brain can happen at any age, with the youngest adult CI claimant in 2022 now being revealed to be 21 years old and claiming for a benign brain tumour. The average age of customers claiming for CI due to brain conditions was 42 for MS, 45 for a benign brain tumour, 50 for a stroke, and 51 for brain cancer. MS represented the brain condition with the largest claims payment out of all four of these at...
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