Zurich reports significant growth in critical illness sales to Q4 2016

This increase follows enhancements to Zurich's critical illness product this year and in 2015. During H1, over £30.6m was paid out to 380 customers with critical illness cover with the average payout being £83,336 and the highest amounting to £550,000. Richard Sadler,head of retail protection propositions said: "It is very encouraging to see applications up on last year by such a large margin with more people taking steps to protect themselves and their families. "We have focused...