NU adds retrospective child CI cover

The cover provides a benefit of £10,000 or 50% of the sum assured (whichever is lower) for each child on the adult’s policy. The policy covers step children and legally adopted children, as well as biological children aged between one and 18 years. It will also continue after a claim for children’s CI is made, offering continued cover for policyholders and their families. This is the second time in two months Norwich Union has applied a condition to its CI policies retrospectively. After adding traumatic head injury to its list of critical illness conditions in January 2007, the company...