Critical Illness

Less than half (48%) of homeowners have a policy and four in five renting households do not have life insurance, and research by Aviva has found.

LV= has revealed the details of its business protection range as it launches the key person, shareholder and partnership insurance, as well as loan protection.

Bright Grey, part of the Royal London Group has upgraded its critical illness cover (CI), alongside incorporating the ABI's statement of best practice for CI.

Bright Grey is the latest insurer to upgrade its plan at the same time as it adopts the revised ABI model wordings that must be effected by 31st December 2015, CIExpert has said.

Legal & General (L&G) paid out £422,500 on children's critical illness (CI) cover claims for leukaemia in 2014, the figure has been released for National Leukaemia Awareness Month.

The four year crude survival rate for head and neck cancers varies by over 30% depending on the type of cancer, an audit has found.

Canada Life has exclusively spoken to COVER on the reasons behind its return to the individual protection market, adding that the newly launched product is 'not the final design'

Friends Life, part of the Aviva Group, is now offering counselling and carer support services to customers taking out protection cover.

People are living longer but they are seeing more illness and disability in their older years, research published in the Lancet has found.

Canada Life has revealed details of its new individual term and critical illness products for the UK market.