Aegon highlights skin cancer claim stats

Cancer accounted for 60% of Aegon's critical illness (CI) claims in 2017, with skin cancer causing 8% of these (5% of all critical illness claims), the insurer is reminding the industry at the height of summer. Aegon paid out a total of £2.3m in total for skin cancer critical illness claims in 2017 - the largest single claim was £400,000 and the average claimant was 49 and the youngest claimant was 33. In the last 10 years, Aegon has paid a total of £17.7m for malignant melanoma CI claims. Hot summer "We've seen record levels of sunshine in the UK over the last couple of months,...