Critical Illness

The family of a man who died of cancer but whose life insurance payout was refused on the grounds that he failed to disclose pins and needles have won their fight against Friends Life, after the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) ruled that the insurer...

Bowel cancer was the second most claimed for form of cancer last year, Scottish Provident has reported.

Providers need to be mindful of getting stuck in a middle ground when trying to cater for a wide mass market on price-competitive critical illness, Skandia has warned.

Ageas Protect has added life of another cover to its term assurance products.

Skandia has re-entered the critical illness market with a 56-condition product aimed at high net worth clients.

Critical illness insurance database CIExpert has released an analysis of Legal & General's alterations to its critical illness products.

As part of a series of offers to mark its 10th birthday, from 22 April Bright Grey will offer customers a year's free critical illness cover when they apply for life cover under its personal protection menu.

Draft guidance has been issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in an aim to identify more clinically and cost-effective lung cancer treatment.

A direct-to-consumer online protection provider has responded to criticism that its critical illness cover is too basic, by stressing that the product will continue to develop as its simple online processes evolve.

Providers have welcomed the government's statutory sick pay increase, but warned against "woefully" high rates of unprotected families as welfare cuts continued.