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The excess/waiting period is the set amount of time that you have to wait before you can make a claim on your insurance policy, and generally, the longer the waiting period, the lower the insurance cost. No benefits are payable during that waiting period. For example, if you select a 14 day waiting period, and become injured during a football match (assuming you seek treatment the same day from a Medical Practioner, and your claim is successful), you are not entitled to income replacement for the first 14 days.
You will have the option on the quoting platform to select whether you want to be covered for Accident only, or for accident as well as sickness.
Selecting Accident-Only will result in a lower premium however it obviusly in turn offers less coverage.
This is a great question! Typically Income Protection policies are provided by a Life Insurance Adviser as a Life Insurance Product. Personal Accident & Sickness is a General Insurance Product and there are some important differences between the two. Typically the life insurance is underwritten upfront, has different terms and conditions and exclusions, but generally provides a longer period of insurance - up to age 65 or even higher. Whereas the Insurance for Footballers Personal Accident & Sickness is not underwritten upfront, intead it excludes pre-existing conditions.
Generally speaking you should avoid the duplication of policies and ensure that you make enquiry to check that the policy you have chosen adequatly covers you in the events that you are expecting them too. We don't want to see you duplicate your insurance cover unneccessarily. If you are unsure, we do have brokers on hand that you can speak to who can discuss the specifics of our Accident & Sickness Insurance Policy and direct you to a Life Insurance Adviser who can assist with any questions around an existing Life Insurance Policy. We truly want to ensure that taking out Personal Accident & Sickness Insurance with us, does not jeopardise any insurance policy that you may already have in place so please reach out and speak to us before proceeding.
Whilst there are some disavantages of Personal Accident & Sickness Insurance over Life Insurance policies, there are some key benefits which include the following: