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pre existing conditions

mr97 · 2020-06-02 10:23:08

Is there anywhere I can find some definitive information re. pre-existing conditions for travel insurance? Looking at a few companies and trying to answer the questions honestly - I don't want to jeopardize a policy - but I'm literally pulling my hair out! My thinking about 'conditions' are either chronic, congenital, or…

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sheramber Posts: 23,648 Forumite

2 June 2020 at 10:39PM

I had a skin cancer lesion removed 30 years ago. I was told that type it was would not spread nor recur. And it hasn't.
But I still have to answer 'yes' to the question have you ever had cancer.
One company refused to cover me because of that.
You do need to answer the question truthfully. it might say' ever' or it might put a number of years on it.

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