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Insurer Cancels 80-Year-Old's 24-Year Policy Over Missed Payments During Hospital Stay
Original: He Missed Two Premium Payments During a Hospital Stay at 80, and the Insurer Cancelled 24 Years of Coverage. A Form He Never Filled Out Would Have Stopped It
An 80-year-old man had 24 years of insurance coverage cancelled after missing two premium payments while he was in hospital. A standard form authorising automatic premium payments from a bank account — which he reportedly never filled out — would have prevented the cancellation. The case is drawing attention to how insurers handle lapses affecting elderly policyholders and the protection a simple payment authorisation can provide.
Why now: People are reacting to how easily decades of coverage can be lost over a small administrative gap affecting an elderly hospitalised customer
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