'Toothless' code fails to help cancer survivors who face discrimination by insurers

'Toothless' code fails to help cancer survivors who face discrimination by insurers

Laura Magan is six years free of cervical cancer but struggled to get mortgage protection for her home in Leitrim.

A woman six years free of cancer who struggled to get a mortgage, despite government pledges to end discrimination by insurers, has called for urgent action on the issue.

Laura Magan is speaking out along with 13 cancer centres, including in Cork and Tipperary, who together warned that a voluntary agreement to have diagnoses disregarded by insurers is “toothless”.

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