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Mental illness insurance exclusions - landmark WIN

CannonSalt
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Mental illness insurance exclusions - landmark WIN

After a girl had worked for two years to earn enough money to go on a school trip to New York, she became too depressed to go - and she could not get a refund from the travel insurer, because mental illness is commonly excluded from insurance policies in the fine print. 

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Four years later... the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that the insurer had directly discriminated against her, which has implications for travel, income and life insurance policies.

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