Critical Illness

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.

COVER magazine is proud to announce the shortlists for the Cover Excellence Awards 2015, which will be held in London in October.

Canada Life has returned to the UK individual protection market with four life plans, two offering a critical illness add-on.

CIExpert has described Canada Life's Critical Illness (CI) add on to its new individual life policies as 'a welcome addition to the market.'

Zurich UK paid 92% of critical illness (CI) claims made in the first half of 2015, and 82% of income protection claims, the insurer's claims statistics have revealed.

Older cancer patients are no less likely to refuse treatment than younger patients, but are less likely to receive treatment, research from Macmillan has found.

The Insurance Surgery has been bought out by the management from founder Paul Mellor, funded by Seneca Partners' Special Situations Fund.

LifeQuote has launched a service to help borrowers who would otherwise dismiss protection as unaffordable due to cash flow pressures resulting from the Mortgage Market Review (MMR).