The ABI has been consulting with medical professionals to re-word its heart attack definition.
Friends Life has made premium rate reductions of up to 6% for sums assured of £30,000 and above on its Protect+ critical illness policy.
Friends Life paid 90% of claims under its critical illness plans last year., 1,565 claims admitted and processed out of 1,733.
Legal & General paid a total of £441 million combined death and critical illness claims in 2011, up from £373 million in 2010 and a new record for the firm.
Aviva paid more than £439m to its life and critical illness (CI) customers in 2011, a total of 99%, making payments for 10,495 life claims and 1,568 CI claims.
Group Risk Development (Grid) has released the first ever full set of collated claims figures from the group risk industry.
Legal & General has made a series of amendments to its group critical illness product including coverage for more illnesses.
The imminent introduction of auto-enrolment looks set to trigger increased investment in employee benefits, according to research from Group Risk Development (Grid).
The government is seeking to cut half a million people from the disability benefits list when the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is introduced.
The Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) is once again issuing its set of popular Top Trumps-style cards designed to help demystify critical illness (CI).