Friends Life launches extra care benefit for CI customers
Additional financial support if condition is 'severe and life-changing'

Friends Life, now part of Aviva, has enhanced its Protect+ critical illness cover with the addition of a market-first benefit called extra care cover.
Extra care cover provides additional financial support to those customers whose critical illness or total and permanent disability is severe and life-changing. A lump sum of £50,000, paid in addition...
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