A series of updates have been made to Legal & General (L&G) Group Protection’s critical illness cover (CIC) definitions for cancer, heart attack and dementia.
The changes have been made to provide greater clarity to customers and their insured employees, L&G detailed, and to keep up to date with changes to diagnostic techniques and treatment. The revised wordings for L&G's cancer definition for group CIC allow greater scope in the type of cancer claims that can be claimed. The changes relate to early-stage prostate cancers, allowing tumours classified as below Gleason score 7 to be included in the definition if they have undergone treatment by prostatectomy. For L&G Group Protection's CIC definition for a heart attack, the evidence requi...
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