Guardian updates proposition and policy T&Cs

CI ‘survival period' reduced for new policyholders

Jaskeet Briah
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Provider, Guardian, has updated its policy terms and conditions (T&Cs), aiming to help policyholders better understand their cover and see clearly what they can claim for, as well as making changes to its existing proposition.

As part of the update, Guardian has split its policy T&Cs and key facts documents into eight separate versions, one for each type of cover within its menu. Rather than receiving a single document containing all covers, policyholders will now receive information that is only relevant to their policy. This builds on the updates Guardian made earlier this year to its MyGuardian policyholder dashboard and adviser dashboards. Guardian has also announced a number of updates and changes to its existing proposition. The provider has reduced the ‘survival period' on Critical Illness Prot...

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