'I'm dying and my life insurance company won't give me a penny'
A grandad with terminal cancer who has been paying life insurance premiums for 15 years has been told he can't cash out on his policy.
Shaun Pinkney, 53, is unable make a claim because he doesn't have long enough left on his plan, Aviva bosses say. The small print, they say, states someone with a terminal illness can only make a claim if they have 18 months or more left on their policy.
Shaun - a dad-of-four and grandad-of-six from Salford - also can't renew because of his diagnosis. "So, if I'd got terminal cancer six months earlier than when I was diagnosed, they would have paid out?," he said. "It's absolutely ridiculous." READ MORE: Heartbreak as leisure centre loved by generations of Salfordians torched Shaun was diagnosed with multiple myeloma - a type of bone marrow cancer - in April 2023.
A year later, he was reminded of his life insurance policy in a letter from Aviva, which urged him to renew the plan he'd been paying into for 15 years.
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