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Friends Provident : Critical Illness Cover

 

Product profile

 

Description

Pays out a guaranteed  tax-free cash sum  if you suffer from one of a defined list of critical illnesses or disabilities
  

For

Aged 18 to 54

Maximum amount payable

£500,000

Critical Illnesses covered

  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Aorta graft surgery
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Benign brain tumour
  • Blindness
  • Cancer
  • Coma
  • Coronary artery bypass grafts
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
  • Deafness
  • Heart attack
  • Heart valve replacement or repair
  • HIV from physical assault
  • HIV from blood transfusion
  • HIV/AIDS from eligible high risk occupation
  • Kidney failure
  • Loss of hands or feet
  • Loss of speech
  • Major organ transplant
  • Motor neurone disease
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Open heart surgery
  • Paralysis of limbs
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Permanent and total disablement
  • Progressive supra nuclear palsy
  • Stroke
  • Third degree burns

Not covered

  • Any illness not specified
  • Some forms of cancer
  • Children:
    • Alzheimer's Disease
    • HIV/AIDS from high risk occupation
    • Parkinson's Disease
    • Permanent and Total Disablement
    • Pre-senile dementia
    • Progressive supra nuclear palsy

Period of cover

  • Minimum five years (10 years if decreasing)
  • Maximum 35 years
  • Cover ends: 64 guaranteed premiums, 69 reviewable premium

Benefits

  • You choose the amount
  • Children's critical illness included
  • Guaranteed insurability option on selected events
  • Premium waiver

Options

  • Level, decreasing or increasing benefit basis
  • Reviewable or guaranteed premium
 

Last updated: 4 February 2008