Critical Illness

Critical Illness

Old Mutual Wealth to acquire £200m financial planning firm DQS

Acquisition adds £200m in assets

clock 15 June 2016 • 1 min read

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Old Mutual rejoins ABI membership

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has confirmed that Old Mutual Wealth is returning to membership.

clock 14 June 2016 • 1 min read

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Zurich overhauls critical illness offering

Enhancements for new plans

clock 13 June 2016 • 2 min read

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CIExpert: Zurich no longer in the 'relegation zone' with CI plan upgrade

CIExpert has revealed that Zurich has refreshed its critical illness plans- adding three 100% conditions twenty additional payment conditions.

clock 13 June 2016 • 2 min read

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L&G paid £1.9 million in children's critical illness claims

Legal & General has published claims statistics revealing that the insurer paid out £1.9 million in children's critical illness claims in 2015.

clock 06 June 2016 • 1 min read

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Royal London urges govt to look beyond the sugar tax to tackle obesity

Royal London is urging the government to take further steps towards tackling the obesity epidemic which it believes will not be solved by the sugar tax alone.

clock 03 June 2016 • 2 min read

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Old Mutual faces shareholder revolt over 'unusual' CEO pay package

Proposed package equals 1,000% of base salary

clock 02 June 2016 • 1 min read

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Insights: Are 100% lump sum payouts the right solution for CI clients?

Deepak Jobanputra examines the question of 100% payouts in severe illness cover, and finds this isn't necessarily to the client's benefit

clock 01 June 2016 • 5 min read

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Critical illness cover: Past, present and future?

With the front page of this month's Cover magazine and numerous additional thought pieces throughout, Kevin Carr says the non-payment of CI claims has again become the industry's big talking point.

clock 23 May 2016 • 5 min read

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Client case study: We didn't think we would ever use our CI policy

Adviser firm Vita shares the experience of a 40 year old client who was diagnosed with breast cancer. When Mrs Duncan took out additional critical illness cover, she never thought she would ever make a claim and discusses the support she received when...

clock 04 May 2016 • 2 min read