Critical Illness

People living with HIV continue to face barriers to accessing both protection and general insurance, despite improvements in availability over the past decade, a major new report from NAT (National AIDS Trust) has warned.

‘Support network’ also hit – Royal London

What would you rate as the most important product feature of critical illness cover to your clients?

Network In Partnership has made CIExpert's analysis service available for its members.

Entrepreneurial start-up company Gryphon Group Holdings Limited, has raised £180m in funding to design and build an 'insurance challenger' that seeks to protect more families in the UK.

iPipeline has reported a 36% increase in the number of completed new business protection applications in Q1 2017, based on provider supplied data, as compared to same period last year.

Protection product sales in Q1 2017 rose by 6.6% (£8.7 million) to £140.2 million, returning to the peak levels of 2016, according to analysis from Equifax Touchstone shared exclusively with COVER.

CIXpert reviews Canada Life's upgrades to to the critical illness component of its CanProtect policies.

Scottish Widows has published its protection claims statistics which show that it paid out 99.38% of life claims in 2016, an increase of 0.5% compared with 2015, and 93.2% of critical illness claims, an increase of 2.7%.

To coincide with Stroke Awareness Month in May, Scottish Widows is highlighting the nation's lack of a financial back-up plan should a serious condition like this be diagnosed.