Travel Insurance

The insurance industry has been under scrutiny in the past few years.
Now they can't decline a claim for unrelated matters to the claim.
Example: your flight is cancelled: your medical history has nothing to do with it.
In the past, as soon as you made a claim, some insurance companies (not all of them) would try to find something to get out of paying.
Not anymore.
This also applies to car insurance.
Let's say you have your car smashed whilst parked.
Your medical history would have no reason to come into play.
It is always advisable to disclose everything to insurance because if you have thrombosis and didn't disclose it and suffer a heart attack, your claim will be rejected.
 
A friend of ours (and his partner) lost their deposits on a big holiday they had planned last year when they had to cancel because he was diagnosed with cancer of the throat. Insurance co. refused to pay out because he hadn’t declared that he had visited his GP some weeks, maybe months before they booked the holiday, with a sore throat.
 
That sort of thing should be escalated / appealed.

His obligation is to disclose anything that may impact the risk, visiting the doctors with a sore throat, wouldn't lead the average person to suspect cancer. of course if he was referred, then that might be different.
 
That sort of thing should be escalated / appealed.

His obligation is to disclose anything that may impact the risk, visiting the doctors with a sore throat, wouldn't lead the average person to suspect cancer. of course if he was referred, then that might be different.
Definately wasn’t referred at that point. I think it was a month or so later that he went back and was referred. Haven’t been out with him for a while so not sure whether he appealed or not but Mrs Mottie sees his partner a couple of times a week and she hasn’t mentioned anything about it. Anyway, after an intense bout of treatment both chemo and radio, he's on the mend and back in work so it’s the least of his problems.
 
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