Weight Loss Drugs and Life Insurance 2025

Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover and Income Protection

Insurers do ask for a person’s height and weight when you apply for life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection. Some also ask for waist measurement or dress size. What the insurers are trying to do is establish whether your weight might affect how long you live for. This applies to people with higher BMIs and low BMIs too. In this blog we will take you through how your BMI and also drugs such as ozempic or mounjaro, are viewed by insurers in the UK.