Insurer

Legal & General paid a total of £441 million combined death and critical illness claims in 2011, up from £373 million in 2010 and a new record for the firm.

AXA PPP healthcare is supporting the UK's largest women only fundraising event, Cancer Research UK's Race for Life 2012.

Most UK life insurers are sheltered from the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone and have consequently reported strong 2011 results, Fitch Ratings has said.

Legal & General (L&G) and The Mansfield Building Society have announced a new protection business partnership.

Friends Life has announced sales of individual protection on an Annual Premium Equivalent (APE) basis for 2011 are up 55% on last year to £80m, while group protection sales on an APE basis rose to 286% to £22m.

While Friends Life is on track for Resolution hive off in 2014, this is by no means a certainty, Friends Life has said.

Assurant Intermediary has altered the underwriting of its Home Protector and Income Protector insurance products.

Skandia UK has appointed Ian Jefferies as head of protection.

The Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 has received its royal assent and will come into force next year.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has welcomed many of the changes revealed in today's budget, despite the fact they will have little direct impact on the insurance industry.