Life Insurance and Disability - Differential Treatment and Ethical Issues

For many disabled people, insurance represents the means by which they are able to live a fulfilled life, free from financial insecurity, with the help of payments from a policy which provided benefits from the onset of their disability. But insurance is not available to all the disabled—those disabled from birth, for example—and those who are eligible do not always obtain insurance easily. A survey of disabled people, undertaken before the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (more…)