Critical Illness

Aegon UK is offering a 5% discount on its standalone critical illness product until 15th October 2015.

Alan Lakey discusses why advisers should pay closer attention to the differences in children's cover offered by insurers

Seven out of ten people know someone with cancer, while 63% have or have had a family member or close friend with cancer, research for Macmillan Cancer Support has found.

Cases of lung cancer in women have reached 20,000 a year in the UK for the first time, having increased from 14,200 a year around 20 years ago, Cancer Research UK has found.

Almost half (47%) of all claims for multiple sclerosis (MS) by Legal & General (L&G) policyholders were made by people aged between 18 and 40 in 2014, the insurer has revealed.

My client wants to take out a life policy, but is worried they might have missed out some GP appointments over the past five years in their application. Will this affect them getting cover, and how do I reassure them?

There was an increase of 2,700 in the number of deaths from less common cancers between 2010 and 2013, a report from Public Health England (PHE) and Cancer 52 has found.

Network Openwork has teamed up with CIExpert to promote the use of its knowledgebase to help members boost their protection business.

The four most common cancers, breast, prostate, colorectal and lung, are affecting 80,000 people diagnosed before they turn 45, research has revealed.

Private medical insurance (PMI) is the top health & protection product consumers in Western Europe would consider buying followed by critical illness (CI) cover, a survey has found.