Critical Illness

Friends Life has raised £140,000 for the Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre which will go towards initiatives including a welfare benefits advice service.

Insurer Zurich paid out on 94% of its critical illness policy claims last year, up from 90% in 2012, latest statistics show.  

Aviva has released previously unseen figures from its critical illness (CI), income protection (IP) and private medical insurance (PMI) claims statistics.

If you were designing a product for covering the need for health intervention and prompt appropriate treatment would it look like a classic corporate PMI insurance?

In ‘an increasing trend towards severity-based critical illness cover' nearly 60% of critical illness policies now offer severity-based cover.

Group CI has seen steady growth in the past year or so, but why? Nicola Culley investigates and assesses whether the increase is sustainable.

CIExpert has hailed LV='s upgrade to its critical illness (CI) plans as the first serious attempt at a hybrid approach between traditional CI and severity-based payments.

Scottish Widows has published details of its life and critical illness (CI) claims with an average of nearly £4 million paid out every week during 2012.

CIExpert has analyses recent changes to Bright grey's critical illness definitions and approved of the insurers clarification of definitions.

Critical illness heart attack definitions are under scrutiny as medical advances redefine the condition, as Joan Coverson explains the main conditions covered under CI policies in the UK have been subject to standardised definitions, determined by the...