Individual Protection

Macmillan Cancer Support has welcomed the Conservatives' manifesto pledges for cancer patients, including changes to improve survival rates.

Holloway Friendly has teamed up with financial services software company IfApps to launch an app for buying illness-specific critical illness (CI) - a breast cancer support policy.

Cirencester Friendly's income protection (IP) policy My Earnings Insurance has been added to Personal Touch Financial Services' (PTFS) protection panel.

AIG Life has announced it paid out 90.2% of critical illness (CI) and children's CI protection claims and 92.2% of life insurance claims in 2014.

In part two of three videos, managing director Darren Spriggs provides further detail on the new policies that AIG Life, formerly known as Ageas Protect, is launching later on in the year.

Discovery, the parent company of Vitality, and John Hancock Insurance have entered a partnership to offer Vitality in the United States of America.

Friends Life has revealed that for the first time it paid out more in critical illness claims than for life insurance during 2014.

Shorter people are more likely to have coronary heart disease, research from the University of Leicester has found.

Legal & General (L&G) has launched three CII accredited training videos to explain business protection to advisers.

Aviva's latest changes to its critical illness (CI) policy has bought it into line with ‘market leaders' Friends Life and Old Mutual Wealth, CIExpert has said.