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Group protection new business up 21% for first half of 2018

COVER's sister publication Professional Adviser invites Legal & General's Craig Brown into the studio for its 'Adviser Champion' series

Legal & General's (L&G) Early Warning System has led to pay outs of £23.4m in 2015 so far, with £125.3m of pay outs since it began in 2010.

Legal & General (L&G) paid out £422,500 on children's critical illness (CI) cover claims for leukaemia in 2014, the figure has been released for National Leukaemia Awareness Month.

Legal and General (L&G) saw their UK protection gross premiums grow 4% (£31m) while UK protection new business annual premiums declined by 3% (£4m) in the first half (H1) of 2015 compared to H1 2014.

Legal & General (L&G) has seen the number of submissions received for its Relevant Life Plan (RLP), increase over 43% in June 2015 compared to June 2014.

Legal & General (L&G) are offering a Second Medical Opinion service as standard on all new policies, with the service managed by Healix Health Services.

Almost half (47%) of all claims for multiple sclerosis (MS) by Legal & General (L&G) policyholders were made by people aged between 18 and 40 in 2014, the insurer has revealed.

The protection market has seen widespread growth, increasing by 4.1%, Swiss Re's Term & Health Watch 2015 report has found.

Legal & General will offer its support to mental health and suicide awareness charity Counselling Life Advice Suicide Prevention (CLASP)'s ‘Walking out of darkness' event.