Life cover crux for MS sufferer’s daughter

A WOMAN whose mother has multiple sclerosis was told she would receive no insurance payout if she died from an illness linked to MS, even though the condition is not hereditary.

Liz Fenton, who has had MS for the past 23 years, said the caveat inserted by Ark Life, that: “No benefit shall be payable under this policy for any illness or disability arising directly or indirectly as a result of Multiple Sclerosis,” amounted to a refusal to insure her daughter, because it opened the way for the insurance company to refuse payment on grounds far broader than MS.

Mrs Fenton, who lives in Fermoy, Co Cork, said the exclusion would ender life assurance cover useless.