Bupa Individual Protection is reducing the prices for its reviewable premium critical illness plans.
For critical illness plans bought alongside a mortgage, the rates have reduced by around 7.3 percent.
For stand-alone critical illness cover the reduction is around 5.7 percent.
For example:
- A female non smoker aged 29 taking out £75,000 of critical illness cover alongside a 30-year mortgage will now pay £17.91 a month (£19.21 previously)
- The same individual taking out stand-alone critical illness cover will now pay £29.94 a month (£31.64 previously)
Critical illness insurance: News update: April 2008