Holiday insurance policy to cover DVT

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Wed, 03 May 2006

A new Holiday Insurance product is aiming to offer greater cover against deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

Insurance providers 24/7 are to offer holidaymakers cover against any flight-related blood clots and offer to pay out up to £10,000 in cases of related DVT deaths up to 72 hours after flying home.

"As far as we know we're the first in the market to offer a policy with a DVT death policy," said 24/7 marketing manager Andrew Williams.

"If a passenger dies during the insured trip or within 72 hours of returning home, they are covered."

However, consumers are being warned that DVT deaths can occur up to two weeks after flying and therefore such a policy would not pay out.

Director of the Aviation Heath charity Farrol Kahn welcomed the new holiday cover but added: "It's the really acute cases when deaths can occur post-flight. In general it takes a little longer for the symptoms to manifest themselves."

The department of health estimates that a DVT occurs in around one to three people per 1000 and that they prove fatal in one in every hundred cases.


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