10 Tips on Avoiding Major Health Insurance Traps

NEGLECTING THE POLICY DOCUMENT

One of the biggest traps people fall into is neglecting to the read their policy documents, said Steve Pritchard, founder of Cuuver, an insurance comparison site. Although an insurance document is no page-turner, it goes back to the old adage, “the devil is in the detail.”

“Finding the time to read it is easier said than done, but so many people face issues because they’ve signed up to a policy that they didn’t know the full terms of,” Pritchard said. “There can be hidden clauses/terms in the small print if you read the policy document before officially signing it.”