Legal & General

Legal & General has reported a near 30% growth in applications for Relevant Life Plans (RLP) on its 2014 levels.

Legal & General is to stop quarterly reporting in 2016, the company has confirmed through a note to the London Stock Exchange.

Legal & General paid out over £8.5 million to women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014.

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.

GPs providing full patient medical records to insurers risk breaking data protection laws, the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned. Cover looks at this industry practice in greater depth

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.

John Ritchie, CEO of Ellipse won Personality of the Year at the Protection Review 2015 awards, while the lifetime achievement award went to John Pollock, formerly of Legal & General.

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.