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Nicola Davis and Anna Tims

Axa threatened to cancel cover for Briton with brain injuries in US, says daughter

Jane Rubens and her daughter Cat Rubens.
Jane Rubens and her daughter Cat Rubens, before Jane suffered brain injuries after being hit by a vehicle. Photograph: Supplied

The daughter of a woman who suffered brain injuries while on holiday in the US has said she was told by her mother’s insurer that she must return to the UK, against the advice of doctors, or face having funding for her medical care withdrawn.

Jane Rubens, 73, from Edinburgh, is in a coma after being hit, as a pedestrian, by a large vehicle in St Louis, Missouri, at the start of November. The collision left her with severe brain injuries requiring multiple surgeries.

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