Firm aims to give ill people cover ‘not otherwise available’
An Irish insurance company has highlighted the importance of providing life cover for people with Hepatitis C and HIV.
Eagle Star Life was recently approved for Ireland’s Hepatitis C Insurance Scheme, operated by the country’s Health Service Executive.
Introduced after a campaign by support groups including the Irish Haemophilia Society and the Irish Kidney Association, the insurance scheme is intended to help people with medical conditions that would otherwise hinder their attempts to get cover.
"Eagle Star has committed to this innovative scheme to help provide valuable and essential life insurance cover to those who would otherwise find such cover unavailable or prohibitively expensive," confirmed Michael Brennan, Eagle Star Life’s chief executive.
Mr Brennan added that the inability to get affordable insurance, or any insurance at all, has long been recognised as a barrier to normal living and working for those with medical conditions such as Hepatitis C and/or HIV.
Ireland’s insurance scheme aims to enable people eligible for life cover and mortgage protection to take out such policies as if they were not in fact living with a medical condition.
The Insurance Helpline specialises in obtaining cover for people living with medical conditions
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