Pru cover halt 'risk' to health

PruHealth has been accused by an adviser of putting clients' health at risk by refusing continuation of cover for its small to medium-sized (SME) corporate customers when employees leave the companies they work for. The intermediary, who wished to remain anonymous, said he had been approached by a client who had been covered by PruHealth under his company's policy. The company was now going into liquidation meaning that the man's employment with them was soon to terminate. The man's wife, also covered, had developed breast cancer while he was working for the company, and he wished for a...