Individual Protection

LV= will launch a business protection product, the insurer has announced as it revealed profits rose across its life business in the first half of 2015.

Legal & General (L&G) paid out £422,500 on children's critical illness (CI) cover claims for leukaemia in 2014, the figure has been released for National Leukaemia Awareness Month.

The UK Life insurance industry is ‘under intense political scrutiny and we expect further reforms', Standard & Poor's has warned in a new report.

The four year crude survival rate for head and neck cancers varies by over 30% depending on the type of cancer, an audit has found.

Life insurance has been placed sixth on a list of signs becoming an adult, being seen as a sign of becoming an adult by 21% of respondents to a survey for Beagle Street.

Canada Life has exclusively spoken to COVER on the reasons behind its return to the individual protection market, adding that the newly launched product is 'not the final design'

Friends Life, part of the Aviva Group, is now offering counselling and carer support services to customers taking out protection cover.

The Financial Conduct Authority is investigating the build up to Aviva's merger with Friends Life and has asked investment bankers involved in the deal to hand over records.

People are living longer but they are seeing more illness and disability in their older years, research published in the Lancet has found.

Canada Life has revealed details of its new individual term and critical illness products for the UK market.