Travel Insurance, now on statins

katejo

bigfer said:

SiliconChip said:

I'll be interested to know the answer as I've recently started on statins too. Previously I've been taking two medications for high blood pressure and declaring those has had no impact on availability of cover or premiums, but adding a third medication for another condition may change that (not that I'm planning to travel anywhere yet while there is so much chaos in the industry and such a lot of Covid still around).

just purchased a policy from Avanti for £70.26 - annual, max 50 days away, couple, europe. rang to confirm that declared raised cholesterol was acknowledged. was paying £26 last year, but the renewal was over £30, so £70.26 doesn't seem too bad considering i was being quoted ~£120 on line by other providers. 
It does seem a con though, as having been diagnosed with raised cholesterol and successfully taking statins to reduce it, the wife is now less a risk than she was last year without a diagnosis. 

Their logic is strange. I was once refused cover simply because my medication (not statins) had been adjusted. I said that surely I was more stable because I had had the blood tests and the adjustment. They claimed I must be unstable because I needed an adjustment!