Critical Illness

The proportion of critical illness complaints upheld by the Financial Ombudsman Service rose by 1% to 25% in the July-September 2014 quarter.

Those living in rented accommodation are half as likely as mortgaged households to have any protection policies and only 15% are saving to have a mortgage.

More life insurers are writing policies for people with HIV but critical illness and income protection policies are still unavailable despite 61% of people surveyed saying they would 'consider' taking out a policy.

Ellipse's charity initiative 'You quote, we donate' has chosen its three charities for the remainder of 2014.

Children are now less likely to be overweight or obese in the UK than they were ten years ago.

Bright Grey is to revamp its critical illness (CI) cover by improving definitions around the five most common reasons for claim.

Royal London has continued to make changes to its protection offering for intermediaries as it moves towards a single unified brand across the business.

L&G has launched a new online body tool to help consumers understand critical illness (CI) definitions alongside its latest changes to definitions.

CIExpert gives its verdict on Legal & General as the latest insurer to upgrade its (CI) critical illness proposition, 17 months after its last set of improvements.

The Skandia brand has formally disappeared from the UK, all the company's operations are now part of the Old Mutual Wealth brand.