THE GOVERNMENT IS planning to legislate to prevent insurance companies from using cancer survivors’ medical history against them.
A ‘right to be forgotten’ in insurance policies has been called for by cancer survivors, their families and campaigners for years, who have long argued that it is unfair for insurance companies to take cancer diagnoses into account years after a person has entered remission.
In 2023, Insurance Ireland announced a new code of practice that outlined that insurers should disregard cancer diagnoses where treatment had ended more than seven years before an application.
The Irish Cancer Society said at the time that the move was an important first step but that the government needed to step in to create legislation on the matter.
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