Insurers to offer cancer survivors the right to be forgotten under revised industry code

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Insurers will disregard cancer diagnoses where treatment ended more than seven years before an application under a revised Insurance Ireland code of practice.

CANCER SURVIVORS WILL be able to avail of the right to be forgotten when applying for mortgage protection.

This timeframe will narrow to five years in the cases of survivors who finished treatment before turning 18. Insurance Ireland highlighted that while discussions continue at European level, the revised code goes beyond proposed provisions from the European Commission for mortgage amounts of €200,000 or less and a period of 15 years since end of cancer treatment.

In February, the Government stalled the progression of the legislation, provoking criticism from the Irish Cancer Society. So there’s nothing ‘unilateral’ about this - Ireland is already very much the laggard not the leader with respect to this legislation. In a series of Tweets this morning, she described today’s announcement “good news” for cancer survivors.

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