Critical Illness

Legal & General has today announced it has improved its financial underwriting criteria for customers taking out life insurance and critical illness cover.

In the US, chronic illness insurance riders are emerging as an alternative to long-term care insurance riders. Could such coverage find a viable market in the UK, asks Mark Johnson.

Advisers should consider children's cover on CI policies as one of the more important aspects of the contract. Mark Anders makes the case.

Lifesearch is raising awareness of the perception gap between the number of protection claims people believe are paid; compared to the actual number of claims that are paid out.

PruProtect has published its first set of paid claim statistics since it came to the UK market in 2007.

Smokers could 'radically' reduce the cost of combined life and critical illness (CI) cover if they kicked the habit, new research has found.

LV= has announced it is offering a 5% discount on premium rates for a number of its protection products.

Andrew Tripp, a former chairman of AMII, has launched new PMI and protection provider ESMI, which he claims will ‘revolutionise' health insurance.

LV has reported a fall in its protection sales of 9%, according to its interim results for the half year to 30 June 2013.

Women still have less critical illness (CI) cover than men yet new Mums are storming ahead in income protection (IP) and life insurance sales, according to two separate pieces of research released today.