Critical Illness

Aviva has altered its critical illness (CI) cover, with a focus on changes which will pay more claims.

The challenge for protection insurers in today's market is to adapt their approach so products are "bought, not sold", a report by Swiss Re concludes.

Almost a third of people who have been treated for cancer say they felt pressure to ‘bounce back to normal' more quickly than they would have liked, Bupa has said.

Almost half of lung cancer patients have experienced delays at some stage of their care signalling a ‘worrying' void between patient expectation and experience, experts have said.

More than eight in 10 children with cancer now survive, compared to just three in 10 in the late 1960s, according to research.

Legal & General (L&G) has launched a pilot scheme offering 2 hours of free legal support to terminal and critical illness claimants.

Survival rates have continued to improve for most of the common cancers, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

Critical illness insurance has unexpectedly become cheaper for many young women this year, according to CIExpert's data tracking.

Young black women in the UK diagnosed with breast cancer aged 40 or younger have poorer overall survival than white women in the same age group, according to a Cancer Research UK study.

Friends Life has urged women of all ages to ensure that they are ‘breast aware', as women under the age of forty accounted for 25% of all breast cancer claims it paid out last year.