Canada Life Group has reached an agreement to acquire Legal & General International (Ireland) Limited (LGII), its parent company Great-West Lifeco Inc announced.

Consumers believe their savings would be more useful to them if they were off work for more than six months than income protection, research has found.

An estimated 2.6 million people aged 50 plus are living with a serious illness in England with 3.1m over-50s living in serious ill health across the UK as a whole, research has found.

The government has announced a consultation on the implementation of the Care Act 2014 which contains the laws for the Dilnot cap on long-term care costs.

Bupa and Friends Life have highlighted measures which need to be taken by employers to help employees with cancer.

Circle has said that it remains open to taking on more NHS contracts after it announced its withdrawal from the contract for Hinchingbrooke Hospital.

Defaqto has released its 2015 star ratings for financial products, including protection policies, giving each a rating from 1 to 5.

Group Risk Development (GRiD) has warned that ‘national sickie day' can be the start of longer term problems for some employees.

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network has endorsed the use of critical illness (CI) data site CIExpert for all its advisers.

Since 2009, 38,600 stroke patients have reached hospital within 3 hours of symptoms appearing, improving their recovery chances, Public Health England (PHE) has revealed.