Holiday Insurance

[bethbilly]

My husband and myself go on a cruise round the med on Sunday.2weeks ago today he saw a doctor about blood clots and bleeding from his badder .he got antibiotics .and I also phoned our insurance to let them know.the doctor also said he refer him for an exploratory of his bladder when we got back .the insurance said they would still insure us for all his other ailments (of which there are a few !) but not for a recurrence of the bladder problem .he finished course of antibiotics and three days later problem reoccurred, got more antibiotics which he,s still on . Problem is the course end on second day of holiday .my daughter says the insurance should still cover us as we got insured 5 weeks ago .what any abs think (sorry for length of question )

[Deskdiary]

Hymie - "Rather than ‘small print’, perhaps I should have said the insurance document terms and conditions printed in a smaller font."

You could of course have said that - but then you'd just show yourself up as being wrong.

A contract of insurance doesn't contain words with a smaller font. Some words may be written in a bold type face or italics, and if they are this means there's a definition of what that word means in (funnily enough) the definitions part of the contract.

If some people can't read plain English, then that's their issue, and can't be blamed on the insurance (frankly, if anybody cannot understand an insurance contract aimed at consumers, then they're as thick as a brick).