Legal & General updates CI, CIx and CCIx

Legal & General (L&G) has announced a simplified list of conditions for its critical illness cover and increased additional payments for its critical illness extra (CIx) offering only available through intermediaries. To reflect a recent poll which found that 81% of advisers would prefer conditions to be merged together where it makes sense, L&G has combined some of its conditions. Among the broadened definitions, ‘coronary artery by-pass grafts' and ‘open heart surgery' have been combined to ‘specified heart surgery' in a bid to improve outcomes for customers. The drug and alcohol...