Critical Illness

There will need to be greater insurer consideration of real claimant needs, a care advisory service provider has stated.

An independent survey, commissioned by PruProtect has found 61% prefer severity based critical illness (CI)cover, when comparing to traditional policies.

LV= today has relaunched its critical illness (CI) cover, with an increase in the number of conditions and partial payments covered, as it positions itself at the quality end of the market.

With the launch of the simple products steering group, what should be the focus for its protection element? Is there a hesitation about actually designing products that are simple?

A critical illness insurance comparison website which allows advisers to compare policies from every CI cover provider has been launched by Highclere Financial Services partner Alan Lakey.

Scottish Provident has announced that it paid out £90 million to critical illness policyholders during 2011, with 91% of all critical illness claims paid.

Group Risk Development (Grid) has released the first ever full set of collated claims figures from the group risk industry.

Tom Baigrie, managing director at protection specialists, Lifesearch, has unveiled its Protection Sellers Code of Conduct.

Lifesearch will be launching a protection seller's code of conduct proposal at its awards ceremony later today.

COVER is proud to announce that Aviva, LV=, PruHealth, PruProtect and Simplyhealth are sponsoring its new website.