Property News · June 11, 2018

How the small print on my travel insurance cost me £30,000


Axa pays just a third of the costs for customer diagnosed with kidney tumour on holidayDuring a holiday in Cape Verde in January, Juliet Taylor was diagnosed with a kidney tumour and airlifted to Tenerife for surgery and two blood transfusions. While she was in intensive care, her travel insurance provider, Axa, told her it would only fund a third of her care costs. She was liable for the remaining £30,500 because she had failed to declare a single prescription of sleeping tablets when she bought the policy from the broker, Coverwise.“It never occurred to me to mention occasional bouts of insomnia,” says Taylor, who spent over a month in hospital. “I bought a policy that promised to cover me for ‘unforeseen accidents and illnesses’ while abroad and the tumour was totally unforeseen. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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