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Critical Illness Cover

What you need to know.

We offer 67 definitions. 47 pay the full amount of cover and 20 additional conditions (including 13 additional conditions for early forms of cancer) pay 25% of the amount of cover, up to a maximum of £25,000, over and above the amount covered.14 definitions exceed the Association of British Insurers’ standard definitions.

When clients choose Enhanced Children's Critical Illness cover, they'll be covered for 13 child-specific conditions. These pay out 50% of the amount of cover, up to a maximum of £50,000. We also offer an extra additional condition covering nine pregnancy complications, which pays out £5,000 for affected pregnancies.

We’ll pay a claim if your client meets one of the critical illness or additional conditions definitions listed in the plan details booklet. If we pay a claim for an additional condition then your client later meets one of our critical illness definitions, we’d also pay the full amount they’re covered for.

Visit our interactive definitions search tool for our full list of critical illness definitions. You can view both our current definitions and past definitions wording to see how they've changed over time.

For more information about each definition and our additional conditions see our plan details.

Overview

Our Critical Illness Cover pays out when the first of the following happens, the person covered:

Meets our definition of any of the critical illnesses on our list, or
Meets our definition of total permanent disability.

Key benefits:

67 critical illness definitions covered
- 47 conditions pay the full amount of cover. For 20 additional conditions we'll pay 25% of the amount of cover, up to a maximum of £25,000. And we'll also pay out the full amount of cover if a client is later diagnosed with one of the 47 conditions.
14 definitions exceed ABI standard definitions
The choice to add a level of Children's Critical Illness Cover that best meets a client's needs. Find out more
Free Cover
Total permanent disability cover
Cover increase options.

Product details

Term of cover	5 - 50 years ~ 5 year renewable ~ 10 year renewable
Basis of cover	Single life
Guaranteed or reviewable payments	Guaranteed and reviewable
Maximum amount of cover	£3,000,000 £1,200,000 (If increasing cover is chosen)
Minimum age when cover starts	18 attained
Maximum age when cover starts	69 attained
Maximum age when cover ends	84 attained
Payment of cover	Lump sum Level Increasing Decreasing

Key:
~ not available on decreasing covers

We won't pay a claim if:

The person covered dies within 10 days of meeting one of our critical illness or total permanent disability definitions.
It’s the result of intentional self-inflicted injury defined in the plan details booklet.
The person covered doesn’t meet one of the critical illness or total permanent disability definitions in the plan details, or
It’s the result of an exclusion shown on the cover summary.

Decreasing cover can be:

Decreasing monthly at a rate of interest chosen by your clients (between 0 and 15%); or
Decreasing yearly at a rate of interest chosen by your clients (between 0 and 15%).

Increasing cover can be:

A fixed rate between 2% and 5%; or
A rate based on the change in retail price index (between 2% and 10%).