Critical illnesses covered by Legal & General


Alzheimer's disease - resulting in permanent symptoms
Aorta graft surgery - requiring surgical replacement
Aplastic anaemia - with permanent bone marrow failure
Bacterial meningitis - resulting in permanent symptoms
Benign brain tumour - resulting in either surgical removal or permanent symptoms
Blindness - permanent and irreversible
Cancer - excluding less advanced cases
Cardiomyopathy - of specified severity
Coma - resulting in permanent symptoms
Coronary artery by-pass grafts - with surgical thoracotomy
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) - resulting in permanent symptoms
Deafness - permanent and irreversible
Dementia - resulting in permanent symptoms
Encephalitis - resulting in permanent symptoms
Heart attack - of specified severity
Heart valve replacement or repair - with surgical thoracotomy
HIV infection - caught from a blood transfusion, physical assault or accident at work
Kidney failure - requiring dialysis
Liver failure - of advanced stage
Loss of hand or foot - permanent physical severance
Loss of speech - permanent and irreversible
Major organ transplant     
Mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ - requiring total removal of the breast
Motor neurone disease - resulting in permanent symptoms
Multiple sclerosis - with persisting symptoms
Multiple system atrophy - resulting in permanent symptoms
Open heart surgery - with median sternotomy
Paralysis of a limb - total and irreversible
Parkinson's disease - resulting in permanent symptoms
Primary pulmonary hypertension - of specified severity
Progressive supranuclear palsy - resulting in permanent symptoms
Removal of an eyeball - due to injury or disease
Respiratory failure - of advanced stage
Stroke - resulting in permanent symptoms
Systemic lupus erythematosus - with severe complications Terminal illness
Third degree burns
- covering 20% of the surface area of the body or 20% of the face or head
Total and permanent disability
Traumatic head injury - resulting in permanent symptoms

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