Tony Smith, 76, had a heart attack in Florida last February, but was covered by RBC Insurance. However, 89-year-old Leon van Witsen was not.
Tony Smith of Kitchener had a heart attack while visiting Florida this past February. A few months late, in June, Leon van Witsen was hospitalized in Texas. He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, treated and flown home to Toronto by air ambulance.
Both men had turned to the same company to buy insurance that would pay for any unexpected medical emergency while outside of Canada.
But that’s where the similarities ended and the heartache began for 89-year-old van Witsen’s family.
RBC Insurance paid all $98,400 of the bills for diagnosing Smith, and for installing two stents into blocked arteries a few months before he turned 76. It w






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