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the latest figures mean that since january 2000, scottish widows has paid a total of £2.5bn in claims to more than 86,000 customers..
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treatment delays are also causing needless anxiety and distress to patients as well as putting lives at serious risk (file pic).
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.but shocking figures uncovered by labour yesterday show some patients are suffering agonising waits of as many as 541 days to begin treatment.