INSURERS PAY UP TO FLY EVE HOME

A WEEK-old baby girl born prematurely while her parents were on holiday in America was flown home yesterday at a cost of pounds 45,000.

After an international row over whether the Miller family's travel insurance covered 1lb 13oz Eve, costs for the special air ambulance were met by the firm Insure And Go.

Eve, born 13 weeks early, was joined on the flight by her parents and specialist clinical staff as British doctors stood by to accept her into the Sharoe Green Hospital in their home town of Preston, Lancashire.

The couple were on holiday with their 19-month-old daughter Alice when Debbie went into labour. Eve was running up medical bills of pounds 3,000 a day at a hospital in Boston, but parents Debbie and Jonathan were told by insurance underwriters that their new baby was not covered because her name was not on the policy - even though Debbie had told the company she was six months pregnant.

Jonathan said: "It's outrageous. Did they want us to write 'foetus' on the insurance form?"

The Millers have now been told they will not have to pay one penny towards the US medical bill.

And Insure And Go are now insisting that there was never any risk of them not covering the bill

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