Insurance still plays a role in such a plan because no individual can foretell when accident or illness will strike.

Only one house (consisting of a single room) had been built when illness struck the settlers.

A whole new aspect of health and disease is being looked at in that illnesses only strike us if we let them.

In the next weeks, the illness struck again three times.

But what happens if an illness strikes someone holding an annually renewable policy?

Two men, no longer lovers but still living together, find that they have each other when illness strikes all around them.

When illness struck a family women had to rely on their own homemade medication as doctors were often to far away to do any good.

He picked people apparently at random, and told them which illnesses would strike.

In 1989 a new illness, eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome, struck at least 3,500 Americans, of whom 50 died.

Eventually, all had realized that illness never struck their world.