The insurer plans to instead ’focus on our health, cash plan and dental insurance businesses’
Bupa has partly blamed Brexit for its decision to axe its travel insurance offering, reported The Times.
In January last year, Bupa stopped providing travel insurance for standalone policies, with customers being told they will no longer be offered policies within wider packages from 1 May.
A spokesperson for Bupa Insurance said: ”We continually review our products and services and work hard to make sure they meet our customers’ needs.
”As a very small travel insurer, we do not have the specialist capabilities required to continue to operate in the travel insurance market.
”As part of a long-term strategic review, we have decided to exit the travel insurance market from May 2021 and focus on our health, cash plan and dental insurance businesses.”
Bupa stopped selling travel insurance in January 2020 and from May 2021, it will no longer sell business travel insurance policies to new customers and renewals will also stop.
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