Individual Protection

Prostate cancer is the most common reason for male claims for cancer, Legal & General (L&G) has revealed.

Seven Families has reported that the protection industry saw a rise in income protection (IP) enquiries towards the end of 2014.

Ageas Protect has recently changed its life insurance underwriting approach for certain types of cancer. John Downes explains why these changes were made.

Unum has enhanced its group critical illness offering by adding seven medical conditions to the cover.

LV= has said that two out of ten (19%) of its male cancer critical illness claims relate to prostate and testicular cancer while ovarian cancer accounts for nearly one in 15 (7%) female critical illness cancer claims.

Friends Life and Virgin Money have launched the first of their planned range of life insurance products.

Jo Miller goes through the key findings of this year's major report by The Syndicate into the public's attitudes to the protection industry

Zurich has revealed it paid out 93% of income protection claims to over 687 customers during 2014.

Columbus Direct has launched a direct to consumer income protection policy.

Mark Myers revisits the claim statistics debate.