. february 2011 (34) . civil servants have claimed they have no power to place restrictions on betting machines branded the crack cocaine of the gambling world. .bother for hernandez stemmed in july 2017, when she suffered a stroke that left her partially blind, which her .the provider paid out on 7,469 life and 1,769 critical illness claims in the year, with men accounting for 59 per cent of life claims and 47 per cent of critical illness claims.