Critical Illness

Individual Protection

Aegon's Stephen Crosbie: Why you should attend the COVER Protection and Health Summit 2017

Aegon's Stephen Crosbie gives a sneak preview of what he will be talking about at COVER Magazine's Protection and Health Summit 2017.

clock 04 September 2017 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Old Mutual Wealth splits £16bn multi-asset business from OMGI

Ahead of planned 2018 listing

clock 04 September 2017 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Four ways to broach the protection conversation

Johnny Timpson suggests four ways to kick off the financial protection conversation in the latest instalment in a series of monthly articles from Scottish Widows.

clock 01 September 2017 • 4 min read

Critical Illness

CI Statement of Best Practice: The "early stages" of significant change?

Munich Re gives its views on the early stage cancer debate as part of the ABI's CI Statement of Best Practice consultation.

clock 21 August 2017 • 4 min read

Income Protection

Industry poll: 87% agree that the claim is the 'core product, not the policy'

Some 87% of protection industry experts surveyed agreed that the 'claim is our core product, not the policy', according to a poll from the Protection Review.

clock 11 August 2017 • 2 min read

Critical Illness

Aegon pays 95% of critical illness claims

Aegon paid 95% of individual critical illness (CI) claims in the first half of 2017, maintaining the same level of CI claims that were paid for the whole of 2016.

clock 09 August 2017 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Analysis: Intermediaries criticise early details of ABI CI Statement of Best Practice

Industry figures have said that the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Statement of Best Practice for Critical lllness Cover consultation has not yet involved intermediaries in a meaningful way as media reports have indicated that proposals currently...

clock 08 August 2017 • 6 min read

Critical Illness

Critical illness cover? Let's kill it off

Ian Sawyer, managing director of Assured Futures, puts forward some controversial views on the relevance of critical illness cover compared to income protection.

clock 07 August 2017 • 3 min read

Critical Illness

Protection claims for skin cancer have fallen - Aegon

Aegon has reported that critical illness claims due to skin cancer have nearly halved since 2010.

clock 03 August 2017 • 2 min read

Individual Protection

Aegon says back office improvements will save advisers around 'five days of waiting'

Aegon has said it will save advisers and their customers about 'five days of waiting' following improvements made to its back-office systems and underwriting processes.

clock 31 July 2017 • 1 min read