How to be financially ready for a serious illness
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If you are over 40 and have a family history of such illnesses, you need to prepare a financial plan on priority. In the third part of this new series on special situations, ET Wealth explains how to prepare yourself and your family for a critical illness, chronic or terminal.
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While it may be impossible to prevent the emotional trauma, being financially prepared can help the family.
When someone is diagnosed with a critical illness, be it cancer, a disease related to kidney, liver or heart, or even Covid-19 in the current scenario, the suffering is not limited to a single person. The entire family is affected in more ways than one, the immediate shock of affliction followed by the prospect of dealing with it, emotionally, physically and financially. The illness triggers a search for the right treatment in the best institution and a scramble to arrange for funds as the full scope of medical costs b
First Published in Bermuda Finance Magazine, December
2020
As the reinsurance industry grapples with the challenges of
COVID-19, Bermuda is poised to play an important role as it adjusts
and finds opportunities. A number of the Island s leaders in
this sector sat down in a virtual roundtable.
HOW HAS BERMUDA AND THE WIDER REINSURANCE INDUSTRY COPED WITH
THE CHALLENGES OF COVID-19?
Paul Simons: It has been very much business as usual, but also
not business as usual. The industry and our colleagues have adapted
to work from home really well. The technology worked, which is
important because the business has to continue. I was so impressed