Critical Illness

Critical Illness

Aegon adds health and wellbeing support to protection policies

Aegon UK has launched a new health and wellbeing support service for protection customers.

clock 26 April 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Scottish Widows highlights MS Awareness Week

Scottish Widows is highlighting the importance of financial protection to coincide with Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week which starts on 25 April.

clock 25 April 2016 • 2 min read

Individual Protection

Aviva pays out 92.5% of critical illness claims

Aviva has published its claim statistics for 2015 revealing that the insurer paid out 98.9% of life insurance claims, 92.5% of critical illness 92.4% of income protection claims.

clock 25 April 2016 • 2 min read

Critical Illness

Scottish Widows clarifies children's CI cover eligibility

Scottish Widows has clarified that its children's critical illness cover will pay claims from birth.

clock 19 April 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

London & Country extends partnership with CIExpert

Following a successful pilot, London and Country Mortgages (L&C) is extending its partnership with CIExpert to allow for more integration of the critical illness research tool into its sales process.

clock 12 April 2016 • 1 min read

Income Protection

Group risk: Growing in confidence

Group risk experts have praised levels of market growth highlighted in the latest Swiss Re Group Watch report but warned that the industry must focus on improving group IP.

clock 08 April 2016 • 3 min read

Employee Benefits

Unum introduces 'Simplicity CI' through intermediary partnerships

Unum has launched a 'Simplicity CI' policy through a limited number of intermediaries to reach out to employers who haven't engaged with the group CI market.

clock 06 April 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Why meeting a definition will always be relevant

Alea Risk's Andrew Wibberley enters the debate around declined critical illness claims which do not 'meet the definition' and calls for a wording re-design.

clock 05 April 2016 • 4 min read

Critical Illness

Aegon UK pays 97% of critical illness claims

Aegon UK has today published claims data which shows a total of £116m was paid out in protection claims to 1,500 customers, families and businesses in 2015.

clock 05 April 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Why 'not meeting the definition' is becoming irrelevant

Following recent stories of declined claims in the Mail on Sunday, Kevin Carr uses lessons from Britpop to argue why insurers should pay out rather than say a claim does not 'meet the definition.'

clock 31 March 2016 • 3 min read