Life insurance
National Friendly launches over 50s Guaranteed Life Assurance
£20 to £100-a-month premiums to cover funeral costs, clear debt and leave money to family
Zurich pays out 97% of 2017 protection claims
Paid life claims reached 99% and mental health most common reason for IP pay-out
Swiss Re Group Watch: Group risk grows by 3.1%
Long-term disability income increases following years of decline
Simon Jacobs: Terminal illness - Confusion for some, financial lifeline for many
After his firm paid out 24% of life claims early as 'terminal illness' benefits in 2017, Aegon UK's Simon Jacobs helps clarify the policy
Old Mutual Wealth paid 100% of life claims (again)
94.6% of critical illness claims paid in 2017 by wealth manager
Cavendish Online adds Luke Barber to develop comparison business
New business development manager will take responsibility for growing white label service
Scottish Widows Protect adds UnderwriteMe
Personal life insurance and critical illness products now available to advisers via online application service
80% believe life claims should be paid in full to non-disclosing smokers
Less so if cause of death is heart attack or lung cancer
More than half of women do not have financial protection
Almost half of UK households risk losing up to £25,000 a year should a female member aged 25 - 45 lose their income
60% of UK women with dependent child have no life cover
Research from Scottish Widows also shows only 13% of mums have a critical illness policy
ONS: Average marriage age up from 35 to 37.5
People marrying later potentially more exposed to IHT and financial pitfalls
Royal London to offer serious illness benefit
For direct-to-consumer life business to overcome CIC barriers
UK family businesses risk impact of critical illness or death
Less than half of family-run firms have a succession plan, research from Legal & General has revealed
UK life customers at risk of £100bn loss due to trust omissions
Two fifths have never heard of writing a life insurance policy into a trust however eight in 10 have assets they want to pass on, research by Legal & General has revealed.
National Heart Month: Millions of Britons unprotected
Coronary heart disease kills 70,000 in the UK every year, while only a third of the population have life insurance, research by Scottish Widows has revealed.
Mental health: Insurance underwriters are human beings too
Following the recent article by The Guardian, specialist adviser Kathryn Knowles discusses changing industry perception and applying her own experiences of mental illness to her work for Cura.
Industry response: mental illness sufferers refused access to life insurance
People with a history of mental health issues are being rejected life insurance, The Guardian reported over the weekend. COVER Magazine investigates further...
Dying to talk about it
Zurich's Peter Hamilton discusses how insurers and advisers can broach difficult conversations around ageing.
Employees prefer alternative names for 'group' insurance products
Research from Canada Life suggests that renaming 'group' insurance products would make them more easily understandable to employees and therefore more sellable.
iPipeline acquires TCP LifeSystems
iPipeline has acquired TCP LifeSystems, a software solutions provider to life and pensions insurance companies, for an undisclosed sum.
Steve Berry: Why we should advise all parents to take out protection
When there are children in a family, writes Steve Berry, it is especially important to think not just 'What if something happened to me?' but 'What if something happened to them?'
AIG Life launches Instant Life offering customers protection within 8 minutes
AIG Life has launched Instant Life, a level term insurance plan with an application time of less than 8 minutes, COVER can exclusively reveal.
Zurich launches 'selfie' app to encourage life insurance take-up
Zurich has launched a 'selfie' app called FaceQuote which estimates how much life cover someone might need.
Future Proof: Customer survey results revealed
Future Proof shares outcomes from in-depth customer research.
