L&G paid out £347m in group protection claims in 2024

Paid out just shy of £1m every day

Jenna Brown
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Legal and General (L&G) paid out £347 million in group protection claims last year, according to the provider’s latest claims data.

It said the total reflected that the business paid out almost £1m every day in 2024. The total figure was across group life assurance, group income protection and group critical illness cover. L&G also highlighted there had been a 20% increase in interactions with its prevention-focused health and wellbeing support services, providing assistance across all their group protection products, from 150,000 in 2023, to 188,000 in 2024. Group income protection L&G said it paid 3,542 group income protection claims in 2024, equating to nearly £87m. The average pay out per claim in 2024 was ...

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